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Happy are the Happy

Happy are the Happy

Summary

1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives.

Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... But sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be.

An award-winning exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity from the creator of global theatre sensation Art and God of Carnage.

Reviews

  • Fast becoming the hit of the summer... At times it's darkly comic, but there's loss and heartbreak, too
    Laurel Ives, Style, Sunday Times

About the author

Yasmina Reza

YASMINA REZA is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and God of Carnage, have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages. Her novels include Hammerklavier, Desolation, Adam Haberberg and Dawn, Dusk or Night. Her screenplay, Lulu Kreutz’s Picnic, was made into a film directed by Didier Martiny.
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