num_pages: 200
description: 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.Translated by Charlotte Mandell.Benoît Duteurtre is the author of ten novels and winner of the 2001 Prix Medicis. He is also the host of his own TV talk show 'Astonish Me, Benoît.'His work has been translated into thirteen languages. This is his first book to be translated into English.
language: English
title: The Little Girl and the Cigarette
titlecomplete: The Little Girl and the Cigarette
genres: Fiction, France, Politics, French Literature, Literature, Novels, Dystopia, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2260
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: Telegram Books