Every time I want to write, want to write love stories. But as soon as I pick up the pen I'm overcome by horror.<BR>The story is simple. A woman and a man marry; their marriage ends in cruelty, infidelity, and divorce. But this novel tells their story twice, from opposing perspectives, until the distinction between truth and deception seems to disappear. It becomes impossible to tell love story from horror story in Margarita Karapanou's devastating exploration of just what makes us want to read each, just what makes each so tempting to write. The result is an ironic, seductive, brutal experiment, a novel that refuses to shy from the moment of rien ne va plus - the moment in roulette when the game becomes fate; when, with an impossible faith, a masterly writer tells of her own dissolution.