Эдуард Луи — новинки

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.

En verite, l'insurrection contre mes parents, contre la pauvrete, contre ma classe sociale, son racisme, sa violence, ses habitudes, n'a ete que seconde. Car avant de m'insurger contre le monde de mon enfance, c'est le monde de mon enfance qui s'est insurge contre moi. Je n'ai pas eu d'autre choix que de prendre la fuite. Ce livre est une tentative pour comprendre.

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.
‘What a beautiful book’ MAX PORTER
In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship.
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 sur

Tytułowy Eddy mieszka w małym miasteczku na północy Francji, pochodzi z robotniczej rodziny. Od urodzenia czuje się inny od rówieśników, jest też przez nich inaczej traktowany. Czuje, że powinien się urodzić gdzie indziej, stać się kimś innym, po prostu być innym człowiekiem. Czy uda mu się uciec i przeobrazić w kogoś, kim tak bardzo chciałby być? Édouard Louis nakreślił wzruszający portret wyrzutka, osoby, której nikt w otoczeniu nie akceptuje – ani koledzy, ani rodzina, ani lokalna społeczność. Czy uda mu się wyrwać z matni przeznaczenia?

The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy – a personal and powerful story of violence.
I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, 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

Ein zorniger junger Autor auf Erfolgskurs – ein emotionales, persönliches und hochpolitisches Buch

»Literatur muss kämpfen - für all jene, die selbst nicht kämpfen können.« Édouard Louis

»An meine Kindheit habe ich keine einzige glückliche Erinnerung« lautet der erste Satz in Édouard Louis‘ Roman »Das Ende von Eddy«. In seinem neuen Buch »Wer hat meinen Vater umgebracht« sieht Louis das anders, mittlerweile versteht er die Gewaltausbrüche seines Vaters, der unter der sozialen Ungerechtigkeit einer Gesellschaft leidet, die für Menschen wie ihn keinen Platz hat. Louis erinnert sich an einen liebevollen und fürsorglichen Vater, der seinem Sohn wünscht, aus den einfachen Verhältnissen auszubrechen. Édouard Louis hat es geschafft. Eine überwältigende Hommage an den eigenen Vater und dessen gescheiterte Träume.

A gripping autobiographical novel—the best work yet from the most talked-about French writer of his generation

On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind.

A bestseller in France—challenged and vindicated in the courts—History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, but with the victim as its subject. 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.

‘A brilliant novel… courageous, necessary and deeply touching’ Guardian
Édouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence.
It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author’s own. Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence, ultimatel

‘Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust from my family and others around me. The only option I had was to get away somehow. This book is an effort to understand all that.’

Édouard Louis grew up in Hallencourt, a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence.

It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author’s own. Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we create our own freedom?