Benoît Duteurtre

Translated by Charlotte Mandell

A death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media (and the tobacco conglomerates) when he demands his right to a final cigarette in a smoke-free prison.

Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette.

In this world where children rule tyrannically a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair ...

Young French author, Benoît Duteurtre, creates a world disconcertingly close to our own, yet wildly askew in this daring and antic comedy.

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