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«Konnemara» — otkrovennyy roman o nesbyvshykhsya mechtakh, vtorykh shansakh, lyubvy y tsene uspekha ot Nykolya Mate, laureata Gonkurovskoy premyy y avtora «Y dety ykh posle nykh». Nazvanye romana pakhnet torfom y vlazhnoy travoy, zvuchyt v elytnykh byznes-shkolakh, na selskykh svadbakh, v molodezhnykh nochnykh klubakh y na tykhykh semeynykh zastolyakh. Vse potomu, chto vo Frantsyy pesnyu Myshelya Sardu ob ozerakh Konnemary znayut esly ne vse, to ochen mnogye. Y geroy romana ne ysklyuchenye. Elen skoro sorok. Rodyvshys v malenkom gorode na vostoke Frantsyy, ona userdno trudylas, chtoby ostavyt provyntsyyu y postroyt zhyzn, dostoynuyu glyantsevykh zhurnalov, kotorye ona chytala podrostkom. Odnako teper, kogda u nee, kazhetsya, est vse — muzh, dve dochery, uspeshnaya karera y ogromnyy dom, — ona chuvstvuet sebya neudovletvorennoy, slovno gody zhyzny proshly zrya. Krystofu nedavno yspolnylos sorok, y on nykogda ne pokydal malenkyy gorodok, v kotorom ros. On uzhe ne tak krasyv, kak ranshe, razveden, zhyvet v rodytelskom dome, razvlekaetsya, ustrayvaya nelepye vykhodky s druzyamy, prodaet sobachyy korm y leleet mechtu ygrat v khokkey, pryamo kak v shestnadtsat let, kogda on byl shkolnoy zvezdoy. Kazalos by, polnyy proval, odnako Krystof uveren, chto vse eshche vperedy. Ykh roman — besposhchadno aktualnaya, otkrovennaya, propytannaya melankholyey, nadezhdoy y yarostyu ystoryya o lyubvy. No ne tolko o ney pyshet Mate: na stranytsakh knygy obretaet golos ne odno pokolenye frantsuzov. Edynoy pesney zvuchat ykh kryk, smekh, plach, shepot, ston. O knyge• Ystoryya lyubvy bez romantycheskykh yllyuzyy kak povod dlya otkrovennogo razgovora o pryrode strasty, pamyaty, opyte, nesbyvshykhsya mechtakh y tsene prynyatykh reshenyy. • Masshtabnyy ekskurs v kulturu y byt zhyteley sovremennoy Frantsyy y Frantsyy 1990-kh y vzglyad na zhyzn raznykh sotsyalnykh sloev. • Avtor smelo rassuzhdaet na volnuyushchye sotsyalnye temy: semeynye y lyubovnye problemy, vygoranye, karera, otnoshenyya rodyteley y detey, smert y mnogoe drugoe. • Geroy romana — ynteresnye y mnogogrannye personazhy, dalekye ot ydeala, so znakomymy somnenyyamy, oshybkamy y psykhologycheskymy konflyktamy. • «Konnemara» byla ekranyzyrovana v 2025 godu rezhysserom Aleksom Lyuttsem. Premera fylma sostoyalas na Kannskom kynofestyvale. • Nykolya Mate — frantsuzskyy pysatel, laureat Gonkurovskoy premyy za roman «Y dety ykh posle nykh». • Stylnoe oformlenye, otsylayushchee k buntarskomu graffyty, tverdyy pereplet s pokrytyem soft-tach. Knyga «Konnemara» — velykolepnyy obrazets sovremennoy frantsuzskoy lyteratury, psykhologycheskyy roman, kotoryy otlychno podoydet kak knyga v podarok lyubytelyu takoy sotsyalnoy sovremennoy prozy y romanov vzroslenyya, kak «Velness» Neytana Khylla, «Pamyat devushky» y «Obyknovennaya strast. Styd» Anny Erno, «Vtoroe mesto» Reychel Kask, trylogyy «Detstvo», «Yunost», «Zavysymost» Tove Dytlevsen, «Serotonyn» Myshelya Uelbeka.

"Connemara" is a frank novel about unfulfilled dreams, second chances, love and the price of success from Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Prize and author of "And their children after them." The novel's title smells of peat and wet grass, and is heard in elite business schools, rural weddings, youth nightclubs, and quiet family gatherings. That's because in France, Michel Sardou's song about the Connemara Lakes is known, if not by everyone, then by a lot of people. And the characters of the novel are no exception. Helen is almost forty. Born in a small town in eastern France, she worked hard to leave the provinces and build a life worthy of the glossy magazines she read as a teenager. However, now that she seems to have everything — a husband, two daughters, a successful career and a huge house —she feels dissatisfied, as if the years of her life have been in vain. Christophe recently turned forty, and he never left the small town where he grew up. He is no longer as handsome as he used to be, divorced, living in his parents' house, having fun, arranging ridiculous antics with friends, selling dog food and cherishing the dream of playing hockey, just like when he was sixteen, when he was a school star. It would seem to be a complete failure, but Christophe is sure that everything is still ahead. Their novel is a ruthlessly topical, frank, melancholy, hopeful and furious love story. But Mathieu doesn't just write about her: more than one generation of Frenchmen finds their voice on the pages of the book. Their screams, laughter, crying, whispers, and groans are a single song. About the book• A love story without romantic illusions as an excuse for a frank conversation about the nature of passion, memory, experience, unfulfilled dreams and the cost of decisions. • A large-scale excursion into the culture and way of life of the inhabitants of modern France and France in the 1990s and a look at the life of different social strata. • The author boldly discusses social issues of concern: family and love problems, burnout, career, parent-child relationships, death, and more. The characters of the novel are interesting and multifaceted characters, far from ideal, with familiar doubts, mistakes and psychological conflicts. • Connemara was filmed in 2025 by director Alex Lutz. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Nicolas Mathieu is a French writer, winner of the Goncourt Prize for the novel "And their children after them." • Stylish design, referring to rebellious graffiti, hardcover with soft-touch coating. The book "Connemara" is a magnificent example of modern French literature, a psychological novel that is perfect as a gift book for lovers of such modern social prose and novels of growing up as "Wellness" by Nathan Hill, "Memory of a Girl" and "Ordinary Passion. Shame" by Annie Erno, "Second Place" by Rachel Kask, trilogies "Childhood", "Youth", "Addiction" by Tove Ditlevsen, "Serotonin" by Michel Houellebecq.