And Their Children After Them by Nicolas Mathieu
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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- 2018
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- French
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- 300-400
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- Alternate Titles
- - Leurs enfants après eux
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