And Their Children After Them (novel)

And Their Children After Them
Cover of first edition
AuthorNicolas Mathieu
Original titleLeurs enfants après eux
TranslatorWilliam Rodarmor
LanguageFrench
PublisherActes Sud
Publication date
2018
Publication placeFrance
OCLC1052883063
843/.92
LC ClassPQ2713.A8767 L48 2018

And Their Children After Them (French: Leurs enfants après eux, literal translation Their Children After Them) is a 2018 novel by French writer Nicolas Mathieu. Actes Sud published the novel, Mathieu's second. An English translation by William Rodarmor was published by Hodder & Stoughton and Other Press in April 2020.[1][2][3] The novel portrays the lives of teenagers and adolescents in peri-urban areas of eastern France in the 1990s, and deals with the consequences of deindustrialization.

The novel received positive reviews from the literary press. It received the Prix Goncourt on November 7, 2018. In November 2021, the English translation won the Albertine Prize, a readers' choice prize administered by the French embassy in New York.[4][5][3][6]

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  2. ^ Mathieu, Nicolas (7 April 2020). And Their Children After Them. Other Press. ISBN 9781892746771. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
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