La mort comme effet secondaire

Synopsis of La mort comme effet secondaire

«La mort comme effet secondaire» is the dystopian novel by Ana María Shua, published by Folies d'encre in paperback (300 pages, in French).

In a Buenos Aires under siege, makeup artist Ernesto (Eni) Kollody witnesses a society where life and death are a media spectacle. His father, ill with cancer, is dying in a private clinic that prolongs his suffering for profit; Eni decides to rescue him and encounters marginal characters and extreme situations.

Translated into French by Philippe Poncet; the original work, in Argentine Spanish, was published in 1998. This Folies d'encre edition is from 2013.

For readers of dystopias and Argentine literature who want to discover this work in its French translation.