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1. 1. And Their Children After Them

   

   Set in a shrinking industrial town in eastern France during the 1990s and early 2000s, the novel follows a group of teenagers as they confront the gap between youthful desires and the grim realities of adult life: first loves, music, boredom, violence, family tension and the slow erosion of working-class prospects after factory closures. Through closely observed portraits of friends, lovers and parents it traces how economic decline, political shifts and everyday choices shape a generation’s hopes, disappointments and the cycles they inherit or try to escape.

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