Nothing Is Lost

by Cloé Mehdi, Howard Curtis (Translator)

Overview

From one of France’s most talented young authors, an urban thriller full of rage and raw emotion

In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Saïd, was fifteen years old. And now he is dead.

Mattia is just eleven years old, and witnesses the hatred and sadness felt by those around him. While he didn’t know Saïd, his face can be seen all over the neighborhood, graffitied on walls in red paint, demanding “Justice.” Mattia decides to pull together the pieces of the puzzle, to try to understand what happened. Because even the dead don’t stay buried forever, and nothing is lost, ever. 

“Poignant, disturbing, moving, chilling… A novel Edvard Munch could have written if he had not been a painter.”—Le Rayon Polar

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609458225
Publisher:	Europa Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/28/2023
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cloé Mehdi was born in 1992. She started writing in college to make the time pass faster. There followed Monstres en cavale, her first novel, which received the 2014 Beaune Prize. Nothing Is Lost was awarded multiple awards, including the 2016 Polar Student Prize, the 2017 Dora Suarez Prize, the 2017 Mystère de la critique Prize, the Blues & Polar prize, and the Thousand and One Black Leaves Prize.

Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian, and Spanish. Among his translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.

Editorial Reviews

A sublime noir novel. Perfectly mastered writing at the service of magnificent characters. A real revelation.”—RTL

“[Cloé Mehdi] showcases a brutal talent, shocking her reader with a harsh and uncompromising narrative style.”—Culture Chronique 

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