# Of Fangs and Talons

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- Book: [Of Fangs and Talons](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-mathieu/of-fangs-and-talons) ([Of Fangs and Talons.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-mathieu/of-fangs-and-talons.md))
- Authors: [Nicolas Mathieu](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-mathieu)
- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-15-2933-157-8
- Published: 2021-08-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

THE FIRST NOVEL BY NICOLAS MATHIEU, WINNER OF THE 2018 PRIX GONCOURT Nicolas Mathieu's gripping first novel is the story of a world that has come to an end. With a girl, a gun and acres of snow. When a factory that employs most of a small town is scheduled to close - to the despair of the workers and disdain of the overlords - things start to fall apart. The disenfranchised factory workers have nothing left to lose. Martel, the trade union rep with innumerable tattoos and Bruce, the body-builder addicted to steroids resort to desperate measures. A bungled kidnapping on the streets of Strasbourg goes horribly wrong and they find themselves falling prey to the machinations of the criminal underworld. "[An] uncompromising portrait of a working class eaten up by the frustration and resentment of having been abandoned, and sinking into alcoholism and racism". -- Paris Match