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History of Violence
Edouard Louis
** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **
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 ... Read more
History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, class, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.
'It stays with you' Times
'A heartbreaking novel' John Boyne
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Edmund White
Guardian
[B]oth brave and ambitious in its determination never to let its reader, or its author, escape lightly the ... Read more