LE MAGASIN DES SUICIDES
Auteur : Jean Teule
Editeur : Pocket
Genre : ROMAN CONTEMPORAIN
Paru en : mars 2008
Reliure : broché
Imaginez un magasin où l'on vend depuis dix générations tous les ingrédients imaginables pour se suicider. Cette petite entreprise familiale prospère dans la tristesse et l'humeur sombre jusqu'au jour abominable où surgit un adversaire impitoyable : la joie de vivre.
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The Tuvaches, a sort of working class Addams Family, operate The Suicide Shop--a shop where anyone can purchase the equipment and/or training required to off themselves (though children can only purchase sweets that have a 50% chance of killing them).
The story is set some time after North America has been laid to waste by the Big One--but for the most part it could pass as contemporary, with the odd bit of future tech: holographic greeting cards; a solution that turn one's kiss poisonous to others; 3d semi-immersive full-sensory television.
Mishima and Lucrèce Tuvache have three children--two depressed and/or ailing, and the youngest, bright and cherubic. This latter child, Alan, is the force that changes everything.
