A collection of short stories with a hint of madness, silently slipping toward outright fantasy, in the vein of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Guy de Maupassant.

A coffin-maker knows who will die next, but doesn’t see his own death coming. A young Nigerian woman resorts to a love potion to "seduce" her master. An Argentinian musician gets lost in the Parisian metro tunnels and discovers catacombs…
From the mangroves of the Niger delta to the stations of the Paris metro, from a literary salon on Rue Monsieur-le-Prince to a Sorbonne lecture hall, Uli Wittmann’s short stories take readers to a wide variety of worlds and landscapes.
With a preface by J.M.G. Le Clézio.