Böcker av Nicolas Mathieu

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

"Hâeláene is approaching forty. Born in a small town in the east of France, she worked hard to leave it behind and achieve a life worthy of the glossy magazines she pored over as a teen. But now that she seemingly has it all - a husband and two daughters, a successful career, and an architect-designed house near Nancy - she feels unfulfilled, as though the years have passed her by. Christophe just turned forty and has never left his little corner of France, where he grew up with Hâeláene. No longer as handsome as he used to be, he's led an unassuming life, preferring to hang out with friends and party rather than apply himself. These days, he's selling dog food, dreaming of playing hockey again like he did when he was sixteen, and living with his father and son - a quiet, indecisive existence, which could be seen as failure. And yet he fully believes that anything is still possible. Telling the story of how their two disparate lives intersect once more, Connemara beautifully evokes the complex pain and joy of returning to your roots, and trying to make a relationship last in a rapidly changing, increasingly divided country"--

From the Goncourt Prize–winning author of And Their Children After Them, a devilishly smart noir novella that finds uncomfortable truths in the everyday about romance, violence, and women’s desire and desirability.Nearing fifty, with a divorce and a string of other failed relationships behind her, Rose has given up on the idea of love, if not sex—though that always comes with risks. Determined not to let another man hurt her, she even ordered a .38 caliber handgun after an argument with her latest boyfriend almost turned violent. Now she carries it everywhere, just in case. As if on autopilot, Rose spends her days at work and then at the Royal, a familiar haunt where she knocks back one drink after another, sometimes with her best friend Marie-Jeanne. And then a sudden accident brings Luc into the bar, and Rose decides to give love one last chance.

The first novel by Goncourt-winning Nicolas Mathieu: a literary crime novel about class, poverty and the criminal underworld.