With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live.
Business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family, the shop offers a variety of ways to end it all, with something to fit every budget.
The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they've never encountered before: a love of life.
Jean Teulé lives in the Marais with his companion, the French film actress Miou-Miou.

The Suicide Shop

Literature & Fiction

Teulé, Jean

Humor & Satire

Gallic Books

‘Sticking closely to the known facts, Jean Teulé’s novelisation offers no easy explanations for what happened but the transformation from rural idyll to hell on earth is terrifyingly convincing.’ Financial Times 
A true story.
 Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Monéys, makes his way to the village fair. He plans to buy a heifer for a needy neighbour and find a roofer to repair the roof of the barn of a poor acquaintance.
 He arrives at two o’clock. Two hours later, the crowd has gone crazy; they have lynched, tortured, burned and eaten him. How could such a horror be possible?
 With frightening precision, Jean Teulé reconstructs each step of one of the most shameful stories in the history of nineteenth-century France.
 Based on a shamefully brutal incident from French history, Jean Teulé’s riveting story shows how easily a group of individuals can turn into an irrational, bloodthirsty mob.
 Reviews
 ‘Teulé’s milieu is centred on the “merriment of vice and cruelty”. His novels are bawdy, full of rollicking sex and roiling violence. However, he undercuts this with a graphic humour born of his earlier career as an illustrator.’ The Independent ‘Exceptionally well written, Eat Him If You Like will have a very special appeal to suspenseful mystery enthusiasts, students of 19th Century French history…’ Midwest Book Review ‘An engrossing book to be read in one big gulp’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Teulé’s vivid account of ordinary folk inexplicably transformed into monsters resonates long after reading’ Publishers Weekly ‘Makes you feel uncomfortable for all the right reasons … a thought provoking novella’ Savidge Reads

Eat Him If You Like

Genre Fiction

"A bawdy romp one minute, a gruesome tragedy the next."—The Sunday Telegraph
The Marquis de Montespan and his new wife, Athénaïs, are a true love match—a rarity amongst the nobility of seventeenth-century France.
But love is not enough to maintain their hedonistic lifestyle, and the couple soon face huge debts. When Athénaïs is offered the chance to become lady-in-waiting to the Queen at Versailles, she seizes this opportunity to turn their fortunes round.
Too late, Montespan discovers that his ravishing wife has caught the eye of King Louis XIV . . .
Prize-winning author Jean Teulé lives in Paris, France.

The Hurlyburly's Husband

"Unique. Hilariously funny, gruesome, macabre, and graphic, it is a worthy witness to great French modern literature."—Words and Peace
Another real-life character tour de force from Jean Teulé featuring a famous female serial killer from the nineteenth century.
Little Hélène Jégado had always been different. Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beautiful child grows up feeling detached from the nineteenth-century world around her and yet destined for a terrible vocation. Beginning with the demise of her mother . . .

The Poisoning Angel

Crénom, Baudelaire !

Literary

MIALET BARRAULT

Gens de France (French Edition)

Casterman

Rainbow pour Rimbaud (Collection L'atelier Julliard) (French Edition)

Julliard

Un soir, une jeune femme aborda Jean Teulé.Curieusement affublée, elle semblait sortir d'un sketch des Deschiens mais son regard, sa démarche et son assurance gouailleuse intriguèrent l'écrivain.Elle dit s'appeler Darling, vouloir raconter son histoire afin qu'il en tire un livre. Elle estimait qu'ils rendraient tous les deux un grand service à leurs contemporains en montrant qu'on peut toujours s'en sortir en dépit de la violence et des catastrophes qui vous tombent sur la tête. En écoutant le récit de Darling, Jean Teulé a entendu l'éternelle lamentation de ceux qui traversent les déserts abominables des vies sans affection, sans respect, sans ressource. Mais il a discerné aussi la voix d'une personnalité étonnante, la voix d'une femme capable de dévisager le malheur avec insolence et d'en parler avec des mots étonnamment justes. De son frère, mort bizarrement dans un accident de la route, elle dira : Quand je l'ai vu, la tête transpercée par une barre de fer tombée d'un camion, j'ai trouvé qu'il ressemblait à un joueur de baby-foot.Succession de coups durs, de rebuffades, d'humiliations, de rêves salopés, de tortures morales et physiques, sa vie a été une longue et lente chute sur le toboggan social d'une France impitoyable, descente aux enfers dont chaque étape lui a laissé une cicatrice incurable. Jean Teulé n'a pas voulu écrire une biographie, il a tenté de rendre, à travers l'écriture romanesque, la trajectoire baroque et tragique d'une femme exceptionnelle que le sort accable, que la société ignore et méprise et qui, pourtant, continue inlassablement à se battre pour redonner à sa vie une cohérence et un but.Grâce à ce roman tendre et terrible, drôle aussi, Jean Teulé – dont le premier livre Rainbow pour Rimbaud a rencontré un immense succès – confirme toute la profondeur et la richesse de son talent.

Darling

Contemporary

415pages. in8. broché. Un vol. couv. imprimée, jaquette imprimée, illustrée, rempliée, int. frais. Bon exemplaire

Je, François Villon

Le magasin des suicides

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