Men Lack Courage

Original title: Les hommes manquent de courage

Author: Palain, Mathieu

Publication Date:

August 2024

Pages:

285

Original language and publisher

French | L’Iconoclaste

Territories Handled

Netherlands, North America, Scandinavia

Genre

Literary Fiction

Awards:

  • Prix Roman Fnac 2024 (longlist)
  • Prix Littéraire Les Inrockuptibles 2024 (longlist)

Men Lack Courage

Original title: Les hommes manquent de courage

Author: Palain, Mathieu

Synopsis

A mysterious new novel filled with emotions by the author of Ne t’arrête pas de courir.

Jessie’s life is slipping away. She can’t cope anymore with Marco, her 15-year-old son. Marco had been missing for three days when, one evening, he called her. He’s at a party. His mother has to come. She has to come right away.

Inspired by a true story, Les hommes manquent de courage is a deeply moving novel about the secrets we pass on to our children without knowing it. Written with great evocative power, Palain’s newest novel rings true and resonates long after having finished it.

It’s a night that rises to the surface. I bury it under layers of memories, but it resurfaces, it makes its way up, it surprises me in front of the students, in the teachers’ lounge, at the table in the middle of a sentence with friends, in the evening while I’m showering, in the morning when I wake up, sitting on the edge of the bed.

Marketing Information

  • English sample available