Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
Not Everybody Lives the Same Way (French: Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon, lit. 'Not All Men Inhabit the World in the Same Way') is a novel by the French writer Jean-Paul Dubois, published in 2019.[1] An English translation by David Homel is scheduled to be published in 2022 by The Overlook Press[2] and MacLehose Press.[3]
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Author | Jean-Paul Dubois |
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Audio read by | Jacques Gamblin |
Original title | Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon |
Translator | David Homel |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions de l'Olivier |
Publication date | 14 August 2019 |
Published in English | 2022 |
Awards | Prix Goncourt (2019) |
ISBN | 978-2-8236-1516-6 |
OCLC | 1110042250 |
843/.914 | |
LC Class | PQ2664.U28435 T68 2019 |
The novel received the 2019 Prix Goncourt.[4]
Content
The novel tells the story of Paul Hansen, who has been incarcerated for two years in the provincial Bordeaux Prison in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Reception
On 4 November 2019, the novel received the Prix Goncourt. Dubois won in the second round of voting, with six votes against four for Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's novel Soif. Philippe Claudel, one of the jurors of the prize, called the novel a masterpiece, "full of humanity, melancholy, irony." The Agence France-Presse news agency called it "an affecting and nostalgic novel of lost happiness." The French magazine L'Obs called it "basically perfect."[5]
The novel was also awarded the Prix Ginkgo du Livre Audio, for the audio version read by Jacques Gamblin.[6]
References
- "Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon". Éditions de l'Olivier (in French). Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
- "Not Everybody Lives the Same Way". Abrams Books. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
- "Not Everybody Lives the Same Way by Jean-Paul Dubois". MacLehose Press. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
- "Author Jean-Paul Dubois takes France's highest literary honour, the Goncourt prize". France 24. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
- Quinn, Annalisa (4 November 2019). "Jean-Paul Dubois Wins Goncourt Prize With Melancholy Prison Novel". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
- "Prix Ginkgo du Livre Audio". Le Livre Sur la Place - Ville de Nancy (in French).