Used book – Les règles du Mikado, Erri De Luca, Danièle Valin

In the mountains near the Italian-Slovenian border, an old watchmaker regularly camps alone. One winter night, a young Roma woman enters his tent and asks for shelter. She has fled her family and the forced marriage imposed on her from the other side of the mountains. This encounter sparks a connection built on nightly dialogues about men and life, an exchange of knowledge and perspectives – she who believes in destiny, in signs, who can read palms, who trains a bear and loves it like her best friend; he who feels like a cog in the world's machine and interprets this world according to the rules of Mikado, as if the game were a way to bring order to chaos. In this dense and delicate novel, where every word opens up deeper meanings, where every sentence is a path to self-discovery, Erri De Luca invites us to a calm, patient, and lucid game, in which an imperceptible movement can change the course of the match.