{"product_id":"sleeping-children","title":"Sleeping Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent' - Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize winning author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is 1981. As a wave of puzzling medical cases sweeps across the US, a Parisian doctor is presented with a rare case of a disease long thought to be eradicated. It marks the beginning of a race on both sides of the Atlantic to make sense of a deadly virus that will define a generation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Miles away in rural France, Anthony Passeron's family are dealing with a crisis of their own. Their small village is gripped by another epidemic - heroin addiction. Anthony's uncle Désiré, once the pride of the family, has become one of its many 'sleeping children'. Often found unconscious on street corners, he is a stranger to his family. As Désiré's life descends into chaos, the thunder of the AIDS crisis grows closer. These two stories - one intimate, one global - are about to collide.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFor readers of Édouard Louis, Douglas Stuart and Annie Ernaux, \u003ci\u003eSleeping Children\u003c\/i\u003e by Anthony Passeron is a moving and eye-opening book about shame and the slow poisoning of a family by the secrets it keeps. Exploring the stories of the heroic few who fought for a cure for AIDs and for justice for a community abandoned, it is a radical vision of a history reshaped, retold and remembered.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Translated from the French by Frank Wynne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Sleeping Children","offer_id":44618631807173,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-0350-2649-4.jpg?v=1743199912","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/sleeping-children","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}