History of Violence, Edouard Louis
You liked The End of Eddy? Here is your chance to immerse yourself again in the words of Edouard Louis, with his radical and urgent new novel History of Violence.
I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o'clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me. He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began.
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.
Discover the well-expected new novel of Edouard Louis translated by Lorin Stein, and published by Harvill Secker.
Edouard Louis is the author of two novels and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and Freeman’s. His first novel, The End of Eddy, was translated into more than twenty-five languages, and has made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.
Lorin Stein is an American critic, editor and translator. His work as a translator includes the bestselling novel Submission by french author Michel Houellebecq. Some books he edited received distinctions such as the National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize or the Believer Book Award.
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