num_pages: 187
description: A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media-- and the tobacco conglomerates--after he demands his right to a final cigarette . . . in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty municipal bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. Incredulously, he realizes that in this world where children are not just kings, but tyrants, a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair.At the cutting edge of European fiction, controversial author Benoît Duteurtre creates a world wildly askew, yet disconcertingly close to our own, in this daring, antic satire.
language: English
title: The Little Girl and the Cigarette
titlecomplete: The Little Girl and the Cigarette
genres: Literature, Audiobook, Novels, France, French Literature, Fiction, Politics, Dystopia
ratings_count: 2260
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: Melville House