“My dear pet” - this is how the accused begins a monologue before the court, but he addresses his beloved. He is 49, she is 14.

This story is told by a "child molester" veterinarian who is obsessed with a farmer's daughter. She has wheat-white hair and a pitch-black imagination. The relationship between them is like that of a predator and its prey, like love without love. She is a sweet animal for him, he is the only person who understands her.

It is a dark, seething stream of thoughts, with chapters without a single line break and meandering sentences. Ambiguity is one of the strengths of this novel. Of course, as in the case of Nabokov's Lolita, here we are dealing with a very unreliable narrator.