And Their Children After Them

14 hrs. 44 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Nicolas Mathieu

Narrator Alexander Mironenko

Description

“And their children after them” is an unrivaled novel about the formation of a person, about the cyclical nature of generations. A novel that captures the true spirit of France on its pages. In a distant summer of 1992, when the stiflingly hot city of Eyange slept, fourteen-year-old Antoine and his cousin, having stolen a canoe, set off for a nudist beach. That day fate brought them together with Steff, Antoine’s first love. This meeting became a turning point, shaping the rest of their lives.

Four summers—four key episodes in Antoine’s life and the lives of his friends. Through the eyes of these teenagers, whose souls are overrun by chaos, rage, тоска (a deep longing), the desire to break into the wider world and win a better future for themselves, Mathieu shows France of the nineties—a country holding its breath.