{"title":"Books by Simon Chevrier","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"libro-foto-por-privado-simon-chevrier","title":"Foto por privado","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"236\" data-start=\"41\"\u003eThe literary debut of Simon Chevrier, awarded the 2025 Goncourt Prize for First Novel, establishes him as one of the most outstanding new voices in contemporary French literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"450\" data-start=\"238\"\u003e\"With a raw and disarming sincerity, the lucid and unvarnished prose of this first novel moves by its refusal to seduce […]. Simon Chevrier will need to be closely followed.\"\u003cbr data-end=\"416\" data-start=\"413\"\u003ePhilippe Jean Catinchi, \u003cem data-end=\"450\" data-start=\"440\"\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"655\" data-start=\"452\"\u003e\"When I signed up on this website a year ago, the ad space had a limit of one hundred characters. About me: Language student, tailor-made lover for cultured men, rates and photos by private message.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1007\" data-start=\"657\"\u003eBetween disappointment and resignation, the narrator slips into an increasingly precarious existence. Family is far away, the father falls ill, encounters through Grindr follow one another without leaving a trace, and temporary jobs barely allow him to get by. For a few months now, almost as an inevitable consequence, he has begun to prostitute himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1548\" data-start=\"1009\"\u003eEverything changes when a portrait hanging over a friend's bed catches his attention. It is a black-and-white photograph by \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003ePeter Hujar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. In it, a young man bent over sucks his toe while holding the camera's gaze between defiance and abandonment. As if the image hid an intimate key, the narrator begins an investigation that will lead him to the artistic New York of the 1980s, marked by the AIDS crisis, and to a story that will start to offer him unexpected answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1869\" data-start=\"1550\"\u003eBeneath an apparent lightness, Simon Chevrier's writing advances with a contained emotion that grows relentlessly until it causes a lump in the throat. An intense and precise debut that portrays emotional fragility, desire, and the search for meaning in a generation suspended between survival and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-end=\"1869\" data-start=\"1550\"\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Chevrier\u003c\/b\u003e, born in 1992, earned a degree in English and a master's in Creative Writing at the University of Le Havre, France. With his first novel, \u003ci\u003eFoto por privado\u003c\/i\u003e, he won the 2025 Goncourt Prize for First Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1869\" data-start=\"1550\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56986237534552,"sku":"LIB-FO-RA-586","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788439746294.jpg?v=1774591081"}],"url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/collections\/libros-simon-chevrier.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}