I just don't know. What...what I am suppose to do?I've been really excited for this one, first because it is written by a french author and second because I've heard really great things about it. But now when I'm finished I just don't know what to say.It was a really good book that has a really s...
C'est un magasin qui, comme son nom l'indique, vend des articles pour aider les désespérés et les déprimés à se suicider, garantie sans pareille!!Mais voilà qu'un petit rayon de soleil filtre à travers le frais et blond Alain, le cadet des Tuvaches, propriétaires et héritiers de la boutique des s...
I had to read this book for my French class, and I actually quite enjoyed it. I think I might have even given this book five stars, but I feel like I missed a couple of things because I read it in French (and my French isn't that good). 'Le Magasin des Suicides' also know as 'The Suicide Shop' in...
Imaginez une petite entreprise où l'on vend depuis dix générations tous les ingrédients pour se suicider. Bienvenue dans le Magasin des Suicides, au célèbre slogan : "Mort ou remboursé!" Mishima Tuvache, le père, spécialisé dans les morts violentes, dirige la maison d'une main de fer. Lucrèce, la...
‘Here, take this to hang the Prussian from that old cherry tree opposite the priest’s garden.’ He turned to Thibassou and ordered, ‘Thibassou, you’re quick and agile, go and help Jean.’ And so amid shouts of ‘Prussian bastard!’ Alain was seized and bound. Thibassou, the very boy Alain had paid to...
Against the proud outline of a menhir it repeatedly rose and fell, circling the stone and brushing caressingly against it, before moving off. At the foot of the megalith was a heap of blond gorse twigs, like a head of hair. The sole of a worm-eaten sabot came down on a corner of the printed page,...
‘“What? How can that be!” she is said to have lost her temper when she saw Hyde. “He would deprive me of being a duchesse? Well, I will complete his ruin, I will strip him to the bone – that gooseherd, that vulgar little good-for-nothing arse-wipe!”’ ‘But who was she talking about?’ ‘About you, o...