Title: The Pigeon - Patrick Süskind - book
Summary :
When this pigeon story happened to him, which turned his life upside down overnight, Jonathan Noël was already over fifty, he had a period of a good twenty years behind him which had not been marked by the slightest event, and he would never have expected that anything notable could happen to him again, except to die one day.
And that suited him perfectly. For he did not like events, and he had a real horror of those which shook his inner balance and upset the order of his life.
