A thousand reasons to despair

"My thoughts stutter. It's a small family problem, a shapely leg in front of my eyes, a passing annoyance to distract me from my path. I'm a butterfly flying from flower to flower. They don't want me to think about my wife, my son, or Even if she's dying, "says Victor Guilbert, the protagonist of the novel, the owner of a well-run computer company in Paris in his fifties, an almost happy husband, father and grandfather ... However, for a somewhat neurotic man who fights against the fears of the gate-closing panic, fate holds surprises beyond the foreseeable future ...