Summary
THE FIRST NOVEL BY NICOLAS MATHIEU, WINNER OF THE 2018 PRIX GONCOURT
Nicolas Mathieu’s gripping first novel is the story of a world that has come to an end. With a girl, a gun and acres of snow.
When a factory that employs most of a small town is scheduled to close - to the despair of the workers and disdain of the overlords - things start to fall apart. The disenfranchised factory workers have nothing left to lose. Martel, the trade union rep with innumerable tatto…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529331608 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529331609 |
| Author: | Nicolas Mathieu, Sam Taylor |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 22 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
Before Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt in 2018 for And Their Children After Them he wrote this remarkable novel about two small-town scallies who resort to crime when the local factory closes down … Mathieu, a wonderful writer, echoes the grittiness and compassion of Émile Zola in Germinal * Sunday Times *
There are several intersecting stories in this bleakly uncompromising portrait of working-class life in the Vosges … this tale of helpless, resentful people with nothing to lose is powerful and compelling. – Laura Wilson * Guardian *
Award-winning novelist Nicolas Mathieu portrays how the destruction of working-class communities has fed cynicism and despair. – Conrad Landin * Jacobin Magazine *
A first novel of rare power * Le Figaro Littéraire *
Nicolas Mathieu has written one of the best crime novels of the year * Le Monde *
Nicolas Mathieu
Nicolas Mathieu was born in 1978 in Epinal, a small town in north-eastern France. After studying history and cinema, he moved to Paris, where he worked variously as a scriptwriter, a news editor, a private tutor, and a temp at City Hall. His first novel, Of Fangs and Talons, won the Erckmann-Chatrian prize, the Transfuge prize and the critics’ award at the Prix Mystere. His second novel, And Their Children After Them, was published to universal acclaim in 2018 and won various prizes including the most coveted prize in France, the Prix Goncourt. He lives in Nancy.
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