David Foenkinos' new novel, The Happy Life, is a romantic comedy with melancholic and offbeat charm. It all comes down to a Korean rite, which means that by confronting one's own death - literally being put in a coffin - one finds the taste for living.
Éric, a senior executive at Décathlon, that an ancient tragedy cracked, and Amélie, charged by the Macron government to travel the world to praise the merits of France to foreign companies. With great skill – and delicacy – the writer weaves, unweaves and reweaves their trajectories.