A Womans Battles and Transformations by Louis Edouard

A Womans Battles and Transformations by Louis Edouard

Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian One day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago: a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams. But growing up, Édouard only knew his mother's sadness - what happened in those years since the photo was taken? Then, at the age of forty-five, Édouard's mother frees herself from this life of oppression, to start a new one in Paris. A Woman's Battles and Transformations reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives - and with the possibility of escape. It is a tender portrait of a mother, and an honouring of her self-discovery as she chooses to live on her own terms. 'Tash Aw's sensitive translation captures the vividness of Louis's voice... Movingly, the book demonstrates the pain that moving from one social class to another entails' Times Literary Supplement 'A tenderness of observation' New York Times 'Incandescent...Louis's most hopeful book to date' Los Angeles Times Translated from the French by Tash Aw

Poetic, tender, joyous* Guardian *
Heartbreaking... You suspect this uniquely troubling writer is far from done yet. * Observer *
Louis' project, at once aesthetic and political, is..."to create a new language for the left", capable of articulating contemporary working-class experience. * New Statesman *
Tash Aw's sensitive translation captures the vividness of Louis's voice... Movingly, the book demonstrates the pain that moving from one social class to another entails. * Times Literary Supplement *
A tenderness of observation... translated into English with unobtrusive flair by Tash Aw. * New York Times *

Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father, A Woman's Battles and Transformations and Change, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. Tash Aw is the author of We, the Survivors; The Harmony Silk Factory, which received the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Map of the Invisible World; Five Star Billionaire, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and the memoir The Face: Strangers on a Pier.

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ISBN 13	9781529115574
ISBN 10	1529115574
Titel	A Womans Battles and Transformations
Autor	Édouard Louis
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-07-06
Seitenanzahl	128
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