Finalist for the France-Canada Literary Award

“In The Age, Nancy Lee has created a world of contradictions for our times: thoughtful terrorists, naive cynics, children as parents, girls who dream as boys. In sharply poetic prose, Lee delineates a world of gorgeous horrors and eerie loves.” - Annabel Lyon, author of The Sweet Girl

Set during the final throes of the Cold War, The Age, is an ambitious and prophetic meditation on the collapse of family, the price of friendship, and the human struggle to find purpose in the face of mortality.

Rendered in sleek, muscular prose and inimitable sensitivity, The Age is at once a harrowing post-apocalyptic drama, a deeply moving journey through adolescent recklessness and desire, and a dark portrait of a generation shaped by nuclear anxiety. Its arrival confirms Nancy Lee as one of Canada’s most thrilling and compelling voices.

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McClelland & Stewart (Canada, English Language)
Buchet-Chastel (France)
Ambo Anthos (Netherlands)