The Winner Stands Alone

'The winner stands alone' is a photograph of the world we live in, captured in the form of a novel. The action occurs in less than 24 hours during the Cannes Film Festival. By providing the reader with details of how his characters - all of them based on real-life people - live and behave, the author turns his twelfth novel into a shrewd criticism of a world overrun by glamour and excess.