by Jean Teulé
The Addams Family meets Amélie.
I loved this novella until the last line ... so no 5 stars :(
I would have given this book 5 stars if it weren't for the slightly disappointing end and the small volume. I thought the idea was so brilliant it deserved to be developed more thoroughly. Teulé' s fine feel for tragic satire felt refreshing and his charachters kept me laughing throughout. The futur...
So utterly dark French. So Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Delicatessen".
How do I view this book? I know for sure there are too much stuff that is lost in translation.As for the plot, it read like a children book. A boy is born smiling in a family of depressive people. The thoughts of having a suicide shop is fresh enough to attract me to buy this book, the premise of a ...
An original idea and very very funny.
I really enjoyed myself reading this book. It has enough humor and pace to keep reading chapter after chapter (…oh, just one more) and before you know it you have read the last word. (Try not to get too depressed about that or anything else for that matter.)
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