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Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
Not Everybody Lives the Same Way (French: Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon, lit. 'Not All Men Inhabit the World in the Same Way') is a novel by the French writer Jean-Paul Dubois, published in 2019.[2] An English translation by David Homel was published in 2022 by MacLehose Press (UK)[3] and The Overlook Press (US).[4] The novel received the 2019 Prix Goncourt.[5] ContentThe novel tells the story of Paul Hansen, who has been incarcerated for two years in the provincial Bordeaux Prison in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ReceptionOn 4 November 2019, the novel received the Prix Goncourt. Dubois won in the second round of voting, with six votes against four for Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's novel Soif. Philippe Claudel, one of the jurors of the prize, called the novel a masterpiece, "full of humanity, melancholy, irony." The Agence France-Presse news agency called it "an affecting and nostalgic novel of lost happiness." The French magazine L'Obs called it "basically perfect."[6] The novel was also awarded the Prix Ginkgo du Livre Audio, for the audio version read by Jacques Gamblin.[7] Awards
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