Edouard Louis

History of Violence

Buch

The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of EddyI 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 im… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Stein, Lorin (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-78730-039-2
EAN: 9781787300392
Produktnummer: 25929911
Verlag: Random House UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.8 cm 229 g
Gewicht: 229

Über den Autor

Édouard 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 two novels, The End of Eddy and History of Violence, were translated into thirty languages, and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.