Of Fangs and Talons

The first novel by Goncourt-winning Nicolas Mathieu: a literary crime novel about class, poverty and the criminal underworld.

About the author

Nicolas Mathieu was born in 1978 in Épinal, a small town in north-eastern France. After studying history and cinema, he moved to Paris, where he worked variously as a scriptwriter, a news editor, a private tutor, and a temp at City Hall. His first novel, Of Fangs and Talons, won the Erckmann-Chatrian prize, the Transfuge prize and the critics' award at the Prix Mystère. His second novel, And Their Children After Them, was published to universal acclaim in 2018 and won various prizes including the most coveted prize in France, the Prix Goncourt. He lives in Nancy.Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than sixty books from French including Laurent Binet's HHhH, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby, and Marcel Proust's The Seventy-Five Folios.

Summary

The first novel by Goncourt-winning Nicolas Mathieu: a literary crime novel about class, poverty and the criminal underworld.

Additional text

The plot, involving drug dealing and simmering violence . . . keeps you turning the pages.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Mathieu, Mathieu Nicolas, NICOLAS MATHIEU
• Assisted by: Sam Taylor (Translation)
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781529331608
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-3160-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Crime, France, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction in translation, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary