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** Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Guardian and Irish Times ** `Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. This book is an effort to understand all that.'Edouard Louis grew up in Hallencourt, a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line.

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was. Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty.

The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of EddyI met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012.History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, dispossession, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand, and to outline, a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.

Romanen åpner med et fotografi, et bilde av en svært ung kvinne. Forfatteren ser et menneske som er fri, lykkelig, i full fart på vei mot fremtiden. Et menneske som både ligner og slett ikke ligner moren han husker fra oppveksten som en utsatt og undertrykt kvinne som oppdro fem barn i fattigdom. I likhet med sin sønn, bryter moren opp, hun i godt voksen alder, for å skape seg et annet liv. Hun oppsøker ham i Paris og ber om å få vaske leiligheten hans mot en beskjeden lønn. Han sier nei, og tilbyr henne litt penger. Senere, etter å ha betraktet hvordan hun utelukkende ved hjelp av egen viljestyrke makter å skape seg en annen tilværelse enn den hun syntes dømt til av samfunnet og menneskene rundt seg, skal han kalle henne «dronningen av Paris». En kvinnes frigjøring er et ømt og skarpt morsportrett, en historie om oppbrudd og forsoning og et litterært manifest. Samtidig belyser den det som kanskje er forfatterens større prosjekt, å vise et slags røntgenbilde av samfunnet gjennom sin egen og sin families historie. Og få andre kan skildre det store i det lille med et bedre og skarpere blikk enn Edouard Louis.

The major new novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.One question took centre stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination and violence in his working-class hometown - so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial 'Eddy' for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug-dealers alike.Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound, Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of 'the beautiful violence of being torn away', but a profound portrait of a society divided by class, power and inequality.

An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation-about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown-so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial "Eddy" for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug-dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound, Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of "the beautiful violence of being torn away," but a profound portrait of a society divided by class, power, and inequality.

A Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author's mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.One day, Édouard 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, Édouard knew only 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?Then, at the age of forty-five, his mother frees herself from this oppression. She leaves her husband and her old life behind to start anew in Paris.A Woman's Battles and Transformations is Édouard Louis's most tender book yet. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives, with politics and power-and with the possibility of escape. It is an exquisite and loving portrait of a mother, and an honoring of her self-discovery and liberation as she chooses to live on her own terms.

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation PrizeA Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author's mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: "I did it. I left your father." Suddenly, she was free.This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman's liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives-and with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Édouard Louis, "one of France's most widely read and internationally successful novelists" (The New York Times Magazine).

An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy."Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . 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-nine 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, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result-a critical and popular triumph-has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.

En kort og intens liten bok møter vi forfatteren Edouard Louis, kanskje både mer direkte politisk og enda mer personlig enn tidligere. Her går han til angrep på staten og dens håndlangere for å ha ødelagt faren både fysisk og psykisk, samtidig som han selv utvikler en større forståelse for hvem han har vært og er blitt.

I romanen "Farvel til Eddy Bellegueule" skriver Edouard Louis sitt eget liv. Boka ble en sensasjon da den kom ut i Frankrike og skapte enorm debatt. Forfatteren, som sier at vi må slutte å romantisere ulykke, var bare 21 år da han debuterte. Han har kjempet hardt og kommet langt.Egentlig er Eddy Bellegueules opprør mot foreldre, fattigdom og en sosial bakgrunn med vold og rasisme, bare det andre trinnet i denne unge guttens dramatiske liv. For før han klarer å gjøre opprør mot den verden han vokser opp i, er det denne verdenen som står opp mot Eddy. Svært tidlig opplever han både forakt og alvorlig mobbing fra sine egne. Valget er enkelt da muligheten til slutt byr seg. Flukt.Dette er en annerledes klassereise, men det kunne vært historien til så mange andre unge som føler at verdenen de lever i, er altfor trang.

Edouard er på vei hjem fra sine to nærmeste venner på julaften, når han blir antastet av en ung mann som søker kontakt. Edouard er sliten og vil hjem, men likevel fascinert og det ender opp med at han inviterer mannen opp i leiligheten sin. Et tilsynelatende spennende møte ender i voldtekt og mordforsøk.Gjennom denne høyst selvbiografiske romanen illustrerer han hvordan samfunnets vold mot enkeltindivider igjen generer vold mot andre mennesker.