{"product_id":"9781035026500","title":"Sleeping Children by Passeron, Anthony","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Passeron, Anthony\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 12 March 2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 16 | 148g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e˜Magnificent' - Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Years˜Supremely skillful' - The Telegraph˜One of the best books I've read in a long time' - i-DFrance, 1981. A small rural village is gripped by an epidemic of heroin usage. Désiré, once the pride of the family, has become one of its many ˜sleeping children', found slumped, unconscious, in the street. Against all odds, Désiré's family desperately try to save him from the lure of addiction as his life descends into chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut something else lingers on the horizon, approaching fast. Far away in Paris, alarm bells are ringing. A race across the globe is beginning, urgent to make sense of a deadly new virus, one that will come to define a generation. But within the statistics, documents and landmarks lie the tragic stories of families torn apart, never told, fading slowly into obscurity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, then, is the story of Désiré.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Passeron's debut novel is a passionate attempt to reclaim these narratives, both personal and national; exploring the lives of the heroic few who fought for a cure for AIDs, and finding justice for an abandoned community. Fascinating, angry, deeply moving and utterly unforgettable, Sleeping Children is a novel about two deadly races against time - to find a cure for a disease, and to rescue a family from the jaws of the past. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57884705554813,"sku":"9781035026500","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9781035026500.jpg?v=1772464542","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/es\/products\/9781035026500","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}