{"product_id":"9781035026494","title":"Sleeping Children","description":"Author: Anthony Passeron\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035026494\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 10 Jun 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. 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. For readers of Édouard Louis, Douglas Stuart and Annie Ernaux, \u003ci\u003eSleeping Children\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46524187574430,"sku":"TLD-9781035026494","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035026494.jpg?v=1771389767","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035026494","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}