by Nicolas Mathieu · ACTES SUD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330108717
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«Leurs enfants après eux» is the coming-of-age novel by Nicolas Mathieu, published by Actes Sud in paperback (432 pages, in French).
In the summer of 1992, fourteen-year-old Anthony steals a canoe with his cousin to cross the lake of his valley in eastern France to the nudist beach, where he will experience his first love. Four summers, from Smells Like Teen Spirit to the 1998 World Cup, trace adolescence in a declining working-class France.
The novel won the 2018 Prix Goncourt and belongs to the Domaine français collection. Nicolas Mathieu, born in Épinal in 1978, made his debut with Aux animaux la guerre in 2014 and published Connemara in 2022.
For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels, interested in contemporary French narrative.
Nicolas Mathieu is a French novelist who has also written short fiction and children's literature. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2018 for his novel Leurs enfants après eux, which follows a group of young people growing up in the aftermath of deindustrialization in northeastern France, a theme that recurs throughout his work, notably Connemara and Aux Animaux la Guerre
