The Suicide Shop
Format: BOOK
ISBN:
9781906040093 (1906040095)
ASIN: arcdAQAAIAAJ
Publish date: 2008-09-20
Publisher: Gallic Books
Pages no: 169
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult,
Roman,
France,
French Literature,
Dystopia,
Fiction,
21st Century
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 ...
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