Young Lily, "112 kilograms of a woman," has been living alone since her fiancé—frightened by her weight—called off their wedding at the last minute. She combats her loneliness and anxiety with bubble baths and sips of port, and especially by spending her evenings with Ninouch, her only friend. Since they met in the clinic where Lily works as a dental hygienist, the two women have been inseparable. At least, as much as Léon, Ninouch's violent and jealous partner, allows. Because Léon, who became rich thanks to the invention of an electric anti-cellulite panty, protects and coddles the fragile Ninouch, whom he rescued from prostitution, using sometimes heavy-handed methods. But one evening, when Léon once again refuses to let Ninouch out, Lily decides to go to the circus alone by taxi. Stuck in a traffic jam, she arrives after the show has ended, all the more disappointed when she discovers on the program that the lion tamer was none other than Taro, her first lover, the young Japanese man who made her lose her virginity in the toilets of a Boeing 737 over the Atlantic! Helped by the ineffable Mikhaëla, the taxi driver, Lily finds Taro who gives her a baby tiger before returning to Japan. A gift that then gives her life an unexpected turn... Dazzlingly funny and imaginative, this second novel definitively establishes Alona Kimhi on the international literary scene as one of the most original writers of her generation.
