Adeline Dieudonné - Átutazók

Summer night somewhere in the Ardennes. Gas station. If we don't count the horse, the corpse, Juliette, the gas station cashier and her colleague Sébastien, who is married to Mauricio, there are twelve people sitting, hanging around, waiting in the cold light of the neon lights: Alika, the nanny from the Philippines, Chelly, the pole dancing teacher, Joseph, who deals in bird louse mite... It's 11:12 at night. Within a single minute, everything turns upside down. Each character becomes the hero of a story, and these stories sometimes intertwine. This is a multi-faceted book about our lives that runs on several threads, which can make us laugh and cry, or just make us laugh to the point of tears.
Just like in his first novel, The Real Life, the author presents dizzying destinies with his characteristic humor and cruelty. Adeline Dieudonné spares us nothing: in the book, the murders, the wild love affairs, the touching and the entertaining scenes are worth one another. However, amid the laughter, the unbridled storytelling, and the whipping of the absurdity of our time, Árutazók actually explores the meaning of life.