Animal War
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About This Novel
The debut novel of Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize and France's "Contemporary Zola"; the French version of "Snowstorm", the winner of the Mystery Criticism Award; French socialist literature, wandering in the dark midnight of France's "Tiexi District", the intertwined light and shadow lives of two generations of "small town youth". In a world on the verge of collapse, both compliance and resistance are futile. Because in the end it will just turn into animal savagery. "Animal War" is the debut novel published in 2014 by Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Prize for Literature and known as France's "Contemporary Zola". The story revolves around a factory that is about to close down in the foggy Vosges Mountains in northeastern France, focusing on the lives of young and middle-aged people in the town. In the declining and depressed old industrial areas in the post-industrial era, the passion, dreams, and even anger that once excited life are extinguished. Two desperate workers are determined to kidnap a local gang leader in Strasbourg. A female inspector from the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate sees a naked girl running out of the forest one winter evening. The new generation of boys and girls in the town seem to have endless energy and desires that need to be vented. They want to leave, but have nowhere to go... Girl, Colt 45 pistol, a blizzard blocked the road, and finally, all the clues were connected... "Animal War" is a wonderful group portrait novel, telling the story of a world that is about to end and those who have lost their support and have nothing. Won the French Mystery Criticism Award, the TV series of the same name was broadcast on France 3 in November 2018.
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