Sleeping Children

'Magnificent' Annie Ernaux

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent' - Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize winning author of </b><i><b>The Years</b></i><br><br>It is 1981. As a wave of puzzling medical cases sweeps across the US, a Parisian doctor is presented with a rare case of a disease long thought to be eradicated. It marks the beginning of a race on both sides of the Atlantic to make sense of a deadly virus that will define a generation.<br><br>Miles away in rural France, Anthony Passeron's family are dealing with a crisis of their own. Their small village is gripped by another epidemic - heroin addiction. Anthony's uncle Désiré, once the pride of the family, has become one of its many 'sleeping children'. Often found unconscious on street corners, he is a stranger to his family. As Désiré's life descends into chaos, the thunder of the AIDS crisis grows closer. These two stories - one intimate, one global - are about to collide.<br><br><b>For readers of Édouard Louis, Douglas Stuart and Annie Ernaux, <i>Sleeping Children </i>by Anthony Passeron is a moving and eye-opening book about shame and the slow poisoning of a family by the secrets it keeps. Exploring the stories of the heroic few who fought for a cure for AIDs and for justice for a community abandoned, it is a radical vision of a history reshaped, retold and remembered.<br><br>Translated from the French by Frank Wynne</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781035026494

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

213 x 136 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan