Connemara
Mathieu knows how to take us from a small-town hockey match to a corporate boardroom, but Connemara — despite Sam Taylor’s smooth translation — lacks the passion or the rigor to give the story more than a surface gloss.
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The author invokes the song as an invitation to his readers to transcend social and cultural differences, and to better understand the lives and perspectives of those who might feel a connection with it ... Mathieu articulates this voice with ferocious wit and empathy for his characters, ordinary men and women leading modest lives ... There is a kind of desperate joy and wry pleasure in his writing, as well as genuine affection for the people of the Grand Est region.
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Mathieu makes life’s emotional precariousness and fading glory palpable.
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