Happy Life
David Foenkinos author Sam Taylor translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:9th Apr '26
Should be back in stock very soon

'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
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
224 pages