Nicolas Mathieu

Gebundenes Buch

And Their Children After Them

'A page-turner of a novel' New York Times

Übersetzer: Rodarmor, William

Beschreibung

The voice of a generation: an immersive, nostalgic novel recalling the long, sultry summers of the 1990s from a hot new talent and the winner of the Goncourt Prize

Autor

Nicolas Mathieu was born in 1978 in Épinal, 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 Mystère. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781529303827
• ISBN-10: 1529303826
• Artikelnr.: 59083354

Rezensionen

Nicolas Mathieu's Goncourt-winning And Their Children After Them, translated by William Rodarmor, winningly wove people, place and time into a lyrical, almost-Lawrentian saga of left-behind France. Boyd Tonkin, Spectator, Books of the Year