The book is set in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, an extraordinary rich cast of characters is revealed in a series of tales that are bizarre, unlikely, moving, funny, or (sometimes) quite ordinary stories based on the people, objects or paintings in the room. . 11 rue Simon-Crubellier has been frozen at the instant in time when Bartlebooth dies where people are frozen in different apartments, on the stairs, and in the cellars, some rooms are vacant. Each chapter is set in each room (thus, the more rooms an apartment has the more chapters are devoted to it). In each room we learn about the residents of the room, or the past residents of the room, or about someone they have come into contact with. The idea of failure is a common theme.
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