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Happy Life

By David Foenkinos
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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... Read More
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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...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781805334415

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Sam Taylor

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

David Foenkinos is the author of 17 novels which have been translated into 40 languages. His novel Delicacy was made into a film starring Audrey Tautou (2011). He received the 2014 Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt des Lycéens for Charlotte. The Mystery of Henri Pick, Second Best and The Martins are also available from Pushkin Press.

Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than 60 books from the French, including Laurent Binet's HHhH, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby and David Diop's Beyond the Door of No Return

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