Happy Life

David Foenkinos author Sam Taylor translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Published:9th Apr '26

Should be back in stock very soon

Happy Life cover

'A tender and whimsical story' Elle

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wants to be someone else.

Eric Kherson - forty, divorced, disconnected - is questioning all his life choices. One meeting with an old school friend is all it takes for him to pack in his prestigious job and accept her offer of a high-powered government position.

He throws himself into her world of endless networking and high-risk deals, but when a business trip to Seoul starts unravelling, Eric feels more lost than ever. Wandering the city streets, he stumbles across Happy Life, a shop offering a curious service: fake funerals. For Eric, this encounter with death might be the very thing to reawaken his appetite for life...

Here is a lucid and jubilant novel about death! * Le Journal de Quebec *
The author returns with a tender and whimsical story * Elle *
It is a novel faithful to the Foenkinos touch, filled with second chances and the important place of love in the trajectory of a life. Fans will not be lost, and new readers will love it. * L’actualité *
To live better, there is nothing like the thrill of death; a phenomenon marketed in Seoul and told by David Foenkinos in his new novel * La Libre Belgium *
His most magnetic novel since The Mystery of Henri Pick. * La Presse *
With Happy Life, David Foenkinos offers his characters a second chance at life * Le Soir *
-- - Praise for David Foenkinos * -- *
It doesn't get more captivating than this * Elle *
It's about time British readers discovered the wit and originality of David Foenkinos, and this exquisitely bittersweet comedy of life's missed opportunities is the perfect place to start -- Jonathan Coe, author of 'Bourneville'
Foenkinos's surreal yet relatable novel, a French bestseller, considers life in our age of anxiety, when other people's picture-perfect lives make our own seem drab in comparison * Washington Post *

ISBN: 9781805334415

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Weight: unknown

224 pages