HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN A FAILURE? LET’S MAKE YOUR DEATH A SUCCESS!
Jean Tuelé’s The Suicide Shop is a dark comedy. The plot goes on with the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop offers an amazing variety of ways to end it all, with something to fit every budget.
The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business, taking pride in the morbid service they provide. Until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they have never encountered before: a love of life.
The plot of the book is a new concept for me if one thinks of this concept that has been weaved out of the author’s imagination. Elements of black comedy is seen through out the book. The characterisation is good, and copes well with the plot. The narrative style is okay, not so much of an attraction I have to say. May be it is the translation that is done this way. It does have an effect though.
My only disappointment is that as the plot moves forward, the story concludes in an average manner. I was certainly hoping that after being humorous and an active plot, the ending will be some kind of an epiphany but it turns out to be totally predictable.
If you are looking for something that you can read in no time and absorb the pleasure out of it with aspects of an interesting dark humorous storyline, go for it but don’t expect too much.
3 out of 5
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I probably wont read it, but it certainly has a unique perspective.
Indeed it has
Ooo this seems really interesting! I might have to check it out
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