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An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation-about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.
One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown-so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial "Eddy" for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug-dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound,
Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of "the beautiful violence of being torn away," but a profound portrait of a society divided by class, power, and inequality.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Édouard Louis is the author of
The End of Eddy,
History of Violence, and
Who Killed My Father, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in
The New York Times,
The Guardian, and
Freeman's. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide.
