A Woman's Battles and Transformations

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, 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).

About the author

Édouard Louis; Translated from the French by Tash Aw

Product details

• Authors: +douard/ Aw Louis, Edouard Louis, Édouard Louis
• Assisted by: Tash Aw (Translation)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780374606749
• ISBN: 978-0-374-60674-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature