Sleeping Children - Passeron, Anthony

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Auteur(s) : Passeron, Anthony

Editeur : Farrar, Straus And Giroux

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2025

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 208

Dimensions : 21.0 x 13.7 x 2.5

ISBN : 9780374612269

Résumé :

An intimate, captivating first novel that tells the story of a family in southern France whose lives are intertwined with the history of the AIDS crisis-and with the forgotten French doctors who are among the first to detect the virus.

It's 1981. As a wave of mysterious infections sweeps across the United States, a doctor in Paris encounters something unexpected: a case of a disease long thought to have been eradicated. It matches what is happening across the Atlantic-and thus begins a race to make sense of a deadly virus, one that will define a generation.

Miles away, in rural France, Anthony Passeron's family is dealing with a crisis of their own. Their small village is gripped by another epidemic: heroin addiction. Anthony's uncle D?sir?, once the pride of the family, has become one of the sleeping children. Often found unconscious on street corners, he is now a stranger to his family. As D?sir?'s life descends into chaos, the thunder of the AIDS crisis grows closer. These two stories-one intimate, one global-are about to collide.

Anthony Passeron's moving novel is also an eye-opening story about shame and the slow poisoning that secrets can inflict on a family. Exploring the stories of the heroic few who fought not only for a cure but for justice for an abandoned community, Sleeping Children is a radical vision of a history reshaped, retold, and remembered.

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Biographie:
Anthony Passeron was born in Nice in 1983. He teaches French literature and Humanities in a secondary school. Sleeping Children is his first novel. He is already working on his next novel....

Sommaire:

An intimate, captivating first novel that tells the story of a family in southern France whose lives are intertwined with the history of the AIDS crisis-and with the forgotten French doctors who are among the first to detect the virus.

It's 1981. As a wave of mysterious infections sweeps across the United States, a doctor in Paris encounters something unexpected: a case of a disease long thought to have been eradicated. It matches what is happening across the Atlantic-and thus begins a race to make sense of a deadly virus, one that will define a generation.

Miles away, in rural France, Anthony Passeron's family is dealing with a crisis of their own. Their small village is gripped by another epidemic: heroin addiction. Anthony's uncle D?sir?, once the pride of the family, has become one of the sleeping children. Often found unconscious on street corners, he is now a stranger to his family. As D?sir?'s life descends into chaos, the thunder of the AIDS crisis grows closer. These two stories-one intimate, one global-are about to collide.

Anthony Passeron's moving novel is also an eye-opening story about shame and the slow poisoning that secrets can inflict on a family. Exploring the stories of the heroic few who fought not only for a cure but for justice for an abandoned community, Sleeping Children is a radical vision of a history reshaped, retold, and remembered.