On Christmas Eve, a family has gathered around the table for the obligatory dinner. The father, once an imposing figure who terrorized his children, has suddenly fallen prey to Parkinson’s. Yesterday’s tyrant is now trapped inside a disintegrating body. André, the eldest child, is nearing 60. He has never loved the father who lied too much, abused too much, manipulated too much. But still, this holiday week, André cannot help but be moved. How should he behave toward a parent to whom all pleasures are forbidden? Should he struggle to prolong the old man’s life, or help him end it? Around the dinner table, opinions are divided. At once intimate and universal, A Good Death is a deeply moving voyage into the essence of humanity. In it, Gil Courtemanche once again asks readers to confront the question that lay at the heart of his first novel: Why live? Why die?

圣诞节前夕，一个家庭围着桌子吃了一顿必吃的晚餐。父亲曾经是一个威严的人物，他恐吓他的孩子们，现在突然得了帕金森病。昨天的暴君现在被困在一个正在瓦解的身体里。长子安德烈（André）已经接近60岁了。他从来没有爱过这个谎言太多、虐待太多、操纵太多的父亲。但是，在这个假期周，安德烈仍然忍不住被感动。他应该如何对待一个所有快乐都被禁止的父母？他应该努力延长老人的生命，还是帮助他结束生命？在餐桌上，大家意见不一。好死不死》既亲切又普遍，是对人类本质的一次深情的探访。在书中，吉尔-考特曼什再次要求读者面对他第一部小说的核心问题。为什么活着？为什么死亡？