# And Their Children After Them

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- Authors: [Nicolas Mathieu](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-mathieu)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-15-2930-385-8
- Published: 2020-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

August 1992. Fourteen-year old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to fight their all-consuming boredom on a lazy summer afternoon. Their simple act of defiance will lead to Anthony's first love and his first real summer - that one summer that comes to define everything that follows. Over four sultry summers in the 1990s, Anthony and his friends grow up in a France trapped between nostalgia and decline, decency and rage, desperate to escape their small town, the scarred countryside and grey council estates, for a more hopeful future. Winner of the Goncourt Prize and praised for its portrayal of people living on the margins of French society, Nicolas Mathieu's eloquent novel becomes a mirror for the struggles of society today.