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.
He lives in Berkeley, California..
In 2017 he won the Northern California Book Award for fiction translation for The Slow Waltz of Turtles by Katherine Pancol.
William Rodarmor is a former journalist who has translated some forty-five books and screenplays in genres from literary fiction to espionage and fantasy.
He lives in Nancy.
He received the Prix Goncourt, France\'s most prestigious literary award, in 2018 for his second novel, And Their Children After Them.
His first novel, Aux animaux la guerre, was published in 2014 and adapted for television by Alain Tasma in 2018.
About the Author Nicolas Mathieu was born in pinal, France, in 1978.
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.
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.
The trip ultimately takes Anthony to his first love and a summer that will determine everything that happens afterward.
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.
August 1992.
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
