The first of the novels signed “Emile Azhar” attracts with its unusualness. Sincere, reciprocal friendship with a boa constrictor as a civic position is the destiny deliberately chosen by the hero of the book, Cousin. But, as it turns out, modern society is not yet ready for such a turn of events. Cousin has one problem after another... A novel about the price of being different, in which comic episodes together form a high tragedy.