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History of Violence
History of Violence
hardback | English
Published:
14 June, 2018
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781911215752 |
| ISBN10 | 1911215752 |
| Number Of Pages | 208 |
| Item Weight | 399 g |
| Product Dimensions | 144 x 28 x 220 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Harvill Secker |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
Louis's greatest strength as a writer is that he feels things so passionately, sometimes to the point of obsession, but that he also has a philosophical turn of mind that explores, rather than neutralises, his feelings. -- Edmund White * Guardian *
[B]oth brave and ambitious in its determination never to let its reader, or its author, escape lightly the damaging realities it describes. -- Tim Adams * Observer *
[A] harrowing piece of autofiction... History of Violence is a slim but densely layered novel that begins with raw urgency. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * The Times *
[A] heartbreaking novel... I find myself captivated by Edouard Louis's books and his raw honesty. -- John Boyne * Irish Times *
An intense and uncomfortably thrilling book, which uses the harrowing events of that Christmas Eve as a basis for a wider exploration of class, race and individualism... a novel that is unflinching in its examination of class and discrimination -- Tash Aw * Times Literary Supplement *
A painful and astonishing book, it tells the story of that night and its aftermath with ruthless poise and clinical precision... With almost superhuman compassion and moral courage, Louis traces the origins of Reda's suffering by reconstructing his father's story. -- Matt Rowland Hill * Literary Review *
History of Violence...pack[s] total immersion and cool detachment into a single page. As translator, Lorin Stein keeps faith with its rawness - and its refinement. -- Boyd Tonkin * Financial Times *
[A] provocative, incendiary and stunning second book. * Vice UK *
Once more, Edouard Louis has given us something unique; a book so direct, shocking and moving it is like holding live fire in one's hands as the pages turn. Like all great writers, he shows us something of the self so that we might better understand something of the world. -- Andrew McMillan
In this moving autobiographical novel . . . Louis's visceral story captures the overwhelming emotional impact and complicated shame of surviving sexual assault. * Publishers Weekly *
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Author's Bio
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.