With his caustic irony, his sense of the absurd and the sweet cruelty that characterize his style, Lionel Shriver offers us a novel full of bursts of laughter, as surprising as it is explosive, in short, an absolutely jubilant reading, “To take or to to leave”.
No one sees the world the same way after the death of a father. It is with this event that the novel we are going to talk about today begins. An event that will lead a couple in their fifties to plan their death, to organize it for the day of their 80th birthday, hoping thus to escape the decline and suffering of the end of life, those that we support ourselves itself, and those that one inflicts on others. Except that there is not one scenario, but 12. So you are going to tell me: 12 variations around old age and death, that must be overwhelming and which puts your morale at zero. Well, not at all ! Because it is Lionel Shriver who holds the pen.
“Take it or leave it”of Lionel Shriverwas published in French by Belfond, in a French translation by Catherine Gibert.