A Woman's Battles and Transformations

By Édouard Louis

Book Overview

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation Prize

A Woman's Battles and Transformations is 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, ?douard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: "I did it. I left your father." Suddenly, she was free.

This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman's liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives--and with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of ?douard Louis, "one of France's most widely read and internationally successful novelists" (The New York Times Magazine).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374606749
• ISBN13: 9780374606749
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"