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Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis's voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation, in French or English.\"--Amazon.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/edouard-louis-books\"\u003eÉdouard Louis\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781787300392\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £754.80","offer_id":47917149716657,"sku":"SB-1787300390-C4","price":754.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1787300390.jpg?v=1789450807"},{"product_id":"who-killed-my-father","title":"Who Killed My Father","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Êdouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, Êdouard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French--at the minimum--of negligent homicide. \"Racism,\" he quotes Ruth Gilmore, \"is the exposure of certain groups to premature death.\" And he goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father--barely fifty years old, he can hardly walk or breathe: \"You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.\" It's as simple as that. But hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love story between father and son badly damaged by shame, poverty and homophobia, but still so alive. Tenderness reconciles them just as the state kills off his father. Louis goes after the French system with bare knuckles but then turns to his long-alienated father with open arms: this passionate combination makes Who Killed My Father a heartbreaking book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/edouard-louis-books\"\u003eÉdouard Louis\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Harvill Secker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781787301221\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harvill Secker","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £4.33","offer_id":47917150175409,"sku":"SB-1787301222-C3","price":4.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Poor Condition — £3.83","offer_id":47917150208177,"sku":"SB-1787301222-C4","price":3.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1787301222.jpg?v=1789227143"},{"product_id":"a-woman-s-battles-and-transformations-edouard-louis","title":"A Woman’s Battles and Transformations: Edouard Louis","description":"\u003cp\u003e' douard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of external forces - society, masculinity, my father - and that things could have been otherwise.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOne day, douard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago. A picture of a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams. Growing up, douard only knew his mother's sadness, as she found herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife, and her struggles against the dominant world of men. What happened in those years since the photo was taken?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then, at the age of forty-five, his mother frees herself from this oppression. 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Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy.\" Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different -- \"girlish,\" intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Edouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. 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