History of Violence by Edouard Louis

History of Violence by 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

In complex environments

explorers to warriors

She was a brilliant student and worked hard

and everything in between

This story starts with a family

stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork

of loveless arranged marriages

She's messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office

James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water

Simon or their friends

the black panther

what happens when the process of memory is disrupted by mental illness