{"title":"Louis Édouard","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"changer-methode-book-douard-louis-9782021483048","title":"Changer: méthode","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50122851025169,"sku":"GOR012649871","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52652199477521,"sku":"GOR013563552","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2021483045.jpg?v=1750869068"},{"product_id":"qui-a-tue-mon-pere-book-louis-douard-9782021399431","title":"Qui a tue mon pere","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50181580980497,"sku":"GOR009651663","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50398188110097,"sku":"CIN2021399435G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52809873129745,"sku":"GOR010891827","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2021399435.jpg?v=1751125488"},{"product_id":"en-finir-avec-eddy-bellegueule-roman-franzosischer-text-mit-deutschen-worterklar-book-louis-douard-9783150199381","title":"En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule: Roman. Französischer Text mit deutschen Worterklärungen. B2 (GER)","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50225596662033,"sku":"GOR009658661","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50290161090833,"sku":"GOR009660666","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3150199387.jpg?v=1751316988"},{"product_id":"cambiar-metodo-book-louis-douard-9788418968563","title":"CAMBIAR METODO","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51313914249489,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51313916608785,"sku":"GOR013846125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8418968567.jpg?v=1751000656"},{"product_id":"monique-escapes-book-douard-louis-9781787305045","title":"Monique Escapes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI freed myself from your father, I thought this would be a new life for me and now it’s starting all over, everything’s starting all over again.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe blazing new book from once-in-a-generation writer Édouard Louis, as he helps his mother escape from an abusive partner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSELECTED AS A BOOK TO READ FOR 2026 BY THE \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eAND\u003ci\u003e NEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne evening, during a writers’ residency in Athens, Édouard receives a tearful phone call from his mother, Monique. She tells him that the man she lives with in Paris is abusive, inflicting upon her the same drunken behaviour as Édouard’s father, repeating the same cycles of violence, shame and humiliation she fled from before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStep by step, they plan her escape, celebrating each small victory of Monique’s new beginning. But how do you rebuild your life when you’ve never truly known freedom?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonique Escapes\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate and gripping portrait of a mother fighting for her self-determination, and of the son who becomes her ally. It is a story of reinvention, the price of liberty and the remaking of the relationship between a mother and a son who, despite the weight of their shared history, manage to find each other again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated by John Lambert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I feel so lucky to be living and writing at the same time as Édouard Louis' \u003cb\u003eMAGGIE NELSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the major writers of our time' \u003cb\u003eGARTH GREENWELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51606282961169,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51606283157777,"sku":"NGR9781787305045","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021983211793,"sku":"NLS9781787305045","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53116542681361,"sku":"GOR014751262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53445960433937,"sku":"GOR014924179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0F62XP553.jpg?v=1786442180"},{"product_id":"collapse-book-douard-louis-9781787305038","title":"Collapse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI often hated my brother, but I have to understand his life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe unflinching story of Édouard Louis’s brother’s violent life and death.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Bracing, pulverising... burns with white-hot truth’ \u003cb\u003eCOLIN WALSH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eÉdouard’s brother spends much of his life dreaming. He lives in a poor, working-class world, where he imagines that he will become one of the finest butchers in France, that he will travel, that he will make his fortune, that he will restore cathedrals, that he will earn his father’s love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut his reality allows none of this. There is no way to escape, no one who can show him how, and everything about him – his drinking, his violence, his behaviour with women and with others – condemns him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt thirty-eight he is found dead on the floor of his small studio apartment. This book is the story of his collapse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated by TASH AW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Louis has never been tenderer, more sophisticated, or more fully on form’ \u003cb\u003eNAOISE DOLAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Spare, raw... Édouard Louis is someone who makes writing matter’ \u003cb\u003eNEIL BARTLETT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Belongs to that vital group of writers, amongst the likes of Cusk, Rankine and Ernaux, who have revitalised and reinvented their own form’ \u003cb\u003eANDREW McMILLAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Édouard Louis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I feel so lucky to be living and writing at the same time as Édouard Louis’ \u003cb\u003eMAGGIE NELSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the major writers of our time’ \u003cb\u003eGARTH GREENWELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Louis is a master of the poetics of juxtaposition, elucidating the hostile and the intimate... the vulnerable and the resilient’ \u003cb\u003eYIYUN LI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52119456121105,"sku":"NGR9781787305038","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53595417379089,"sku":"NLS9781787305038","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53688024400145,"sku":"GOR015003345","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53689071862033,"sku":"GOR015004105","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781787305038.jpg?v=1785878044"},{"product_id":"geschiedenis-van-geweld-book-louis-douard-9789023466918","title":"Geschiedenis van geweld","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52449286881553,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52449286947089,"sku":"GOR014524494","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789023466918.jpg?v=1759313712"},{"product_id":"l-effondrement-roman-points-6472-book-louis-douard-9791041425211","title":"L'effondrement: roman (Points, 6472)","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53819825651985,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53819825684753,"sku":"GOR015043348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9791041425211.jpg?v=1784880817"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-louis-douard.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}