Showcase: And Their Children After Them A Novel by NICOLAS MATHIEU Translated by WILLIAM RODARMOR

Today I'm showcasing another fantastic offering from favorite indie publisher Other Press a French novel set in the recent past, And Their Children After Them.
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ISBN-13:
 978-1-892746-53-5

Publisher: Other Press


Release Date: 4-7-2020


Length:
 432pp

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Overview:

Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt, this poignant coming-of-age tale captures the distinct feeling of summer in a region left behind by global progress.

August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a desolate valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to explore the famous nude beach across the water. The trip ultimately takes Anthony to his first love and a summer that will determine everything that happens afterward.

Nicolas Mathieu conjures up a valley, an era, and the political journey of a young generation that has to forge its own path in a dying world. Four summers and four defining moments, from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to the 1998 World Cup, encapsulate the hectic lives of the inhabitants of a France far removed from the centers of globalization, torn between decency and rage.

Showcase - Article 353 by Tanguy Viel translated from the French by William Rodarmor

If you've been visiting the blog lately you'll notice I've been showcasing a lot of books published by this incredible indie house called Other Press. They offer such a diverse selection of both fiction and non-fiction some homegrown but many like today's showcase translated.
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ISBN-13:  978-1-59051-934-9
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 3-12-2019
Length: 160ppTranslated from the French by William Rodarmor
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Overview:

This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.
In a depressed town on France’s northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what brought him to this desperate point: his divorce, his son’s acting out, layoffs at his job, and, above all, Lazenec’s dazzling project for a seaside resort. The temptation to invest all of your severance pay in a beautiful apartment with a view of the sea is great. But of course, this is only a plan in the works—or is it?

In this subtle, enthralling novel, Tanguy Viel examines not only the psychology of a crime, but also the larger social ills that may offer its justification.