In 2025 verscheen bij uitgeverij Les éditions du Typhon in Marseille een vertaling van Het jongensuur: L’Heure des garçons in vertaling van Mireille Cohendy en door haar ook van een nawoord voorzien.
Hier enkele (in het Engels vertaalde) reacties:
In L'Heure des garçons, which tells the story of a young girl from the slums who suffers heartbreak, she also recounts the awakening of desire in simple sentences written in the present tense.
Frédérique Fanchette, Libération
What is surprising is a kind of candour, a freshness of expression, a somewhat mocking lucidity that pervades the narrative and transforms it into a kind of story of the awakening of a personality grappling with the chaos of a world at war. (...) Lively, intelligent and haunting, this book has definitely come at just the right time!
Hugo Pradelle, En attendant Nadeau
In this mixture of naive self-assurance, extraordinary lucidity, profound dismay and a rage to live, we find something of the tone of The Notebook, the trilogy written from a child's perspective by Agota Kristof.
Chloé Brendlé, Le Matricule des Anges
L'Heure des garçons is a very subtle novel about gender issues and the discovery of sexuality. It says a lot between the lines, without overdoing it, and that's what makes it so powerful.
Jeanne, Le Merle Moqueur, Paris.
What a sublime read and what powerful writing. I am won over by Andreas Burnier's writing, convictions and modernity.
Mélanie, Librairie Goulard, Aix-en-Provence.
L'heure des garçons is a must-read novel: funny, gripping, violent and light-hearted all at once. The author tackles everything without compromise: war, anti-Semitism, gender, homosexuality, masculinism... almost 60 years ago. A classic that is finally available in French!
Quentin, La comédie humaine, Avignon
L'heure des garçons is the sunny, funny and free diary of a Jewish child hidden during the war. A survival novel that is disturbingly true to life!
Jean-Philippe, L'Usage du papier, Trouville-sur-mer
Simone was born in the wrong body at the wrong time. City after city, she tries to survive while standing up to everyone. A great character for a great novel about the freedom to be.
Ana, Les nouveautés, Paris
A hymn to freedom that is surprisingly modern!
Mathilde, Les traversées, Paris
