This searing novel of a childhood in a working-class French town has sparked conversations across the globe about social inequality and sexuality
Edouard Louis (Author)
douard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence,
Who Killed My Father and A Woman's Battles and Transformations, and
the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His
work has been translated into more than thirty languages, making
him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide.
When new voices come from underrepresented constituencies, there’s
always the hope of a new perspective... I can read Edouard Louis
and know something of what it means to grow up in extreme poverty
in contemporary France
*Observer*
When new voices come from underrepresented constituencies, there’s
always the hope of a new perspective... I can read Edouard Louis
and know something of what it means to grow up in extreme poverty
in contemporary France
*Observer*
Even in the wake of Knausgaard and Ferrante it is hard to find a
literary phenomenon that has swept Europe quite like the
autobiographical project of Édouard Louis
*LitHub*
An extraordinary autobiographical novel about class, violence and
sexuality in France. It’s a vivid, often brutal but immensely
touching book that restores my faith in the power of literature
*Tash Aw*
This is the courageous story of an outsider, in equal parts frank,
provocative and compelling
*Financial Times*
Stunning... A startling use of the extremely personal to convey a
message that is universally relevant
*Vice*
An intelligent, revelatory book
*The Sunday Times*
The real achievement of the book is not its reportage, but its
attitude. It is written entirely without self pity – and,
astonishingly, without judgment... courageous, necessary and deeply
touching
*Guardian*
It is a brutal, forceful, gripping read. There is no hipster
posing, no ironic distance; its anger and rawness make it
refreshing. He has something to say – and it’s worth listening to…
I suspect we’ll be hearing more of Edouard Louis. He is that
relatively rare thing – a novelist with something to say and a
willingness to say it, without holding back
*The Times*
A candid, necessary call against conventional definitions of
masculinity and the fear of difference
*Observer*
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