Fragen Sie die Kassiererin! Überlebenstipps für Kunden

by Anna Sam, Elisabeth Liebl (Translator)

"Wer dieses Buch gelesen hat, ändert sein Leben", befand Ursula März in "Deutschlandradio Kultur" zu den Leiden einer jungen Kassiererin. Ebenso humorvoll und scharf beobachtet wie in ihrem Bestseller, widmet sich Anna Sam jetzt den Leiden auf der anderen Seite der Supermarktkassen: denen der Kunden.

Genres: Nonfiction

155 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2009

Reviews

[Christine Van Heertum · Rating 3 out of 5]

un petit livre qui me fait hurler de rire, tant il décrit la réalité de notre vie quand nous faisons nos courses! Chacun(e) s'y retrouvera, de la manière de rédiger ses courses, à l'agacement que certains aménagements suscitent, en passant par notre vécu lorsque nous souhaitons acheter un appareil électro-ménager! hilarant!

[Asahi88 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quando comprai "Le Tribolazioni di una Cassiera" ero così sicura che mi sarebbe piaciuto (eh si, ero ottimista) che mi sono comprata anche il secondo! Non l'avessi mai fatto...

opinione scritta il 05\07\11

[Alina Marx · Rating 1 out of 5]

Keine Ahnung, warum ich mir das Buch zu Gemüte geführt habe. Es hatte keinen Witz, kein Mehrwert und auch sonst nichts, bei dem ich mich gerne dran erinnern werde.

[Iris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah, French comedy. Whether literary or cinematic, it's often so banal and lazy that you'll pine for a brash American remake. Anna Sam doesn't disappoint in this book of advice to French grocery store shoppers, delivering such exhilarating second-person narration as "You drive into the grocery store parking lot and, after a lot of hunting, you find a spot. Don't forget your shopping list!" The style is like that of her first book, "Tribulations d'une caissière", a mega-bestseller in France ("Checkout: A Life in the Tills" in its English edition).

Intimately familiar with the bewilderment, fear and trembling of a typical visit to a Paris grocery store, I smiled at Anna Sam's typical oddities in Monoprix: the cashier who makes you return all your items because you don't have exact change and she refuses to make 2€ change, the economy-sized glass jar of apricot preserves shattered in the center of an aisle for a whole day, and the produce guy who refuses to sell you plums because "it isn't done." Ah, la douce France!

However, any reader is better off reading David Lebovitz's The Sweet Life in Paris: A Recipe for Living in the World's Most Delicious City. He's a writer with wit and style to spare, and more importantly, his short takes on Paris everyday life spins insight from petty frustration. Even a non-francophile would find illumination and delight therein.