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The audiobook is anchored by the full text of the provocatively topical title novella that appeared in Harper's, a sometimes farcical, ultimately tragic story about the president of an international lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper in a New York hotel. Recalling recent news events with irony and compassion, Kalfus skewers international political gridlock and the hypocrisies of acceptable sexual conduct.

"The Coup de Grâce" a short story by Ambrose Bierce, himself a troubled veteran of the American Civil War, details a fictional situation, which may be based on some truth. An act so humane and yet so repugnant it would not be spoken of. War is unglamorous and ugly.

Dix récits et dix atmosphères radicalement différentes pour un pied de nez cocasse à la mort. Des nouvelles courtes, amusantes et suffocantes où l'auditeur navigue à vue au fil d'une succession douce-amère de vies qui exultent ou expirent.