“I'm not like other children. My name is Louis Drax. Things happen to me that shouldn't happen. Do you know what everyone said? That one fine day a great misfortune will happen to me, misfortune to all misfortunes. It seemed like he looked into the sky - and from there a child was falling. This is me.” Mom, dad, son and hamster go to the mountains for a picnic, where the predicted great misfortune happens. The son falls off a cliff. The father disappears. The mother is desperate. But a few hours after his death, nine-year-old Louis Drax suddenly begins to breathe again. And while he wanders in the twilight kingdom of a coma and talks with the terrible Gustav, a man without a face, his attending physician Pascal Dannachet is trying to understand what happened to Louis - and to his mother. Psychological thriller by the popular British writer Liz Jensen “The Ninth Life of Louis Drax” - a novel about families who live like time bombs and one day explode. About the darkness of the subconscious, where everyone risks getting lost, and some wander forever. About how fragile life is and how easy it is to ruin it.