Néfertiti dans un champ de canne à sucre

Synopsis of Néfertiti dans un champ de canne à sucre

«Néfertiti dans un champ de canne à sucre» is the novel by Philippe Jaenada, published by Pocket in 2000 in paperback (282 pages, in French).

A thirty-five-year-old man, a doctor of sexual conquests and achievements, boasts of never having fallen in love. When he meets Olive, who smokes Gitanes and reads Bukowski, attraction turns into obsessive passion. The relationship becomes a race against time; Jaenada portrays love as a sadistic and masochistic bond.

For readers of contemporary French fiction who appreciate stories of obsession and unconventional love with irony.