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Heafield, Simon

Simon Heafield graduated in French and Spanish in 2005 and has spent most of the intervening time working in bookshops, browsing in bookshops, or doing both at the same time. His dream is to be a full-time writer – or failing that to own a sweetshop in Paris.

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20080301125926 Daniel Macklin, Going up in smoke - Simon Heafield on Benoit Deteurtre, The Little Girl and the Cigarette - Slightly Foxed Issue 17

Going up in Smoke

Simon Heafield on Benoît Duteurtre, The Little Girl and the Cigarette

The dogmatic persecution of those whose unhealthy lifestyle falls below the high standards of the lawmakers is vividly and terrifyingly dramatized in Benoît Duteurtre’s novel The Little Girl and the Cigarette. The French writer sets his action in the near future – without saying exactly when – and in a familiarly Western democratic country – without saying exactly which. The story, or rather one of the two stories we follow through the book, opens with a distinctly modern dilemma.

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