La Vie En Mieux [Paperback]

Editor’s note:

“Mathilde is 24 years old. She gave up her art history studies for a side job and lives with two twin sisters. She says she is happy, but still has to drink to remember.
One day, she forgets her purse in a cafe. A man returns it the following week.
Several months later and precisely because of this man, she throws everything away and decides to change her life.

Yann is 26 years old. He’s as graduate as one can be, but hasn’t found a job. While waiting for better days, he is a salesman in a Hi-Tech household appliance store. He lives in a relationship with Mélanie and does not say that he is unhappy, but often, when he crosses the Seine, he imagines that he jumps and sees himself drowned.
One evening, when he is alone, he helps his next door neighbor. To thank him, the latter invites him to dinner.
The next morning, he throws everything away and decides to change his life.

Two stories. Two stories of young people of our time, sated, but hungry, polite, but enraged, who still prefer to take the risk of having the wrong life rather than living none. (Anna Gavalda)