Edouard Louis

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, Édouard 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 Édouard Louis, “one of France’s most widely read and internationally successful novelists” (The New York Times Magazine).

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A Woman's Battles and Transformations

tara  (she/her)

Je vertelde me altijd dat je niet begreep waarom mijn vader zo hard was voor zijn eigen gezin en zo aardig en zelfs gul voor anderen, onbekenden, altijd bereid anderen te steunen, een dienst te bewijzen, iemand uit de brand helpen, zoals hij het zei.

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