Sleeping Children: 'Magnificent' Annie Ernaux

di Anthony Passeron (Autore)

Frank Wynne (Traduttore)

Pan Macmillan, 2025

'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 The Years 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. 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. For readers of Édouard Louis, Douglas Stuart and Annie Ernaux, Sleeping Children 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. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

• Autore: Anthony Passeron
• Traduttore: Frank Wynne
• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 136 mm
• Peso: 228 gr.
• EAN: 9781035026494

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