by Nicolas Mathieu · Babel · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782330149970
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«Rose Royal» is a volume of two short crime novels by Nicolas Mathieu, published by Babel in paperback (144 pages, in French).
Rose, past fifty, goes to the Royal bar every night to drink and forget her loneliness; after loves that hurt, she has sworn to suffer no more and carries a revolver in her bag. Rose's encounter with Luc will test her resolve. The volume closes with «La Retraite du juge Wagner», a portrait of a judge forgotten by justice and his friendship with a lost boy.
«Rose Royal» originally appeared in 2019; this Babel edition is from 2021. Nicolas Mathieu won the Goncourt Prize in 2018 for «Leurs enfants après eux».
For readers of crime fiction and contemporary French narrative, as well as for followers of Nicolas Mathieu.
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
