{"product_id":"sleeping-children-by-anthony-passeron-9781035026494","title":"Sleeping Children","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Édouard Louis, Douglas Stuart and Annie Ernaux, \u003cem\u003eSleeping Children\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244118782188,"sku":"9781035026494","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035026494-sleeping-children-1.jpg?v=1787993307","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sleeping-children-by-anthony-passeron-9781035026494","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}