The Suicide Shop
| Author | Jean Teulé |
|---|---|
| Original title | Le Magasin des suicides |
| Translator | Sue Dyson |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Julliard |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | London: Gallic Books: 2008 |
| Pages | 157 |
| ISBN | 2-260-01708-8 |
The Suicide Shop (French: Le Magasin des suicides) is a 2006 black comedy novel by the French writer Jean Teulé. It is set in a future near-apocalyptic city in a world suffering the ravages of severe climate change, where almost everybody is depressed. Symptomatic of this, the pivotal Tuvache family is named after a trio of celebrity suicides – patriarch "Mishima" Tuvache is meant to evoke Yukio Mishima, while their eldest son Vincent Tuvache is named after Vincent van Gogh and their daughter Marilyn Tuvache is meant to mirror Marilyn Monroe. Their younger son Alain is named after British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing, but proves to be the white sheep of the family.