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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. Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than sixty books from French including Laurent Binet's HHhH, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, and Marcel Proust's The Seventy-Five Folios.Before Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt in 2018 for <i>And Their Children After Them </i>he wrote this <b>remarkable novel</b> about two small-town scallies who resort to crime when the local factory closes down . . . Mathieu, a wonderful writer,<b> echoes the grittiness and compassion of Émile Zola in <i>Germinal</i></b>
Sunday Times
There are several intersecting stories in this <b>bleakly uncompromising portrait of working-class life </b>in the Vosges . . . this tale of helpless, resentful people with nothing to lose is <b>powerful and compelling</b>.
- 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
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 tattoos and Bruce, the body-builder addicted to steroids resort to desperate measures. A bungled kidnapping on the streets of Strasbourg goes horribly wrong and they find themselves falling prey to the machinations of the criminal underworld.
"[An] uncompromising portrait of a working class eaten up by the frustration and resentment of having been abandoned, and sinking into alcoholism and racism". -- Paris Match