426 pages
French language
Published April 12, 2018
426 pages
French language
Published April 12, 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. 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.