[2] In Paris, a man shaves off his moustache for the first time in ten years.

He is baffled when his wife reacts by insisting that he never had a moustache.

His world begins to crumble when she denies the existence of several people he knows and claims his father is dead.

[1] Publishers Weekly called the book "a tense, piercing reminder that a fine and shifting line distinguishes fact from mirage" and "a keen example of how readers are necessary captives of a narrator's perspective, no matter how skewed or surreal".

[1] The novel serves as the basis for the 2005 film The Moustache, directed by Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon.