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The Little Girl and the Cigarette. Novel by Benoit Duteurtre. Translated by Friðrik Rafnsson.
A little girl approaches a forty-year-old city worker as he sneaks into the restroom at work to smoke a cigarette. An everyday incident that is nevertheless viewed with grave seriousness and sets off a terrifyingly funny sequence of events that would have made storytellers like Swift and Kafka proud. This is an artfully woven, exciting and fast-paced story that takes place in an imaginary but familiar future society. Beneath the innocent surface, the author ponders pressing questions about various issues, such as whether children or adults should rule society, whether love and kindness are endangered species, whether the media should replace the courts, and whether it is a lesser crime to murder a police officer than to smoke in secret. (Bókatíðindi 2008).
A little girl approaches a forty-year-old city worker as he sneaks into the restroom at work to smoke a cigarette. An everyday incident that is nevertheless viewed with grave seriousness and sets off a terrifyingly funny sequence of events that would have made storytellers like Swift and Kafka proud. This is an artfully woven, exciting and fast-paced story that takes place in an imaginary but familiar future society. Beneath the innocent surface, the author ponders pressing questions about various issues, such as whether children or adults should rule society, whether love and kindness are endangered species, whether the media should replace the courts, and whether it is a lesser crime to murder a police officer than to smoke in secret. (Bókatíðindi 2008).