A Woman’s Battles and Transformations

Poetic, tender, joyous.

Poetic, tender, joyous.

Heartbreaking... You suspect this uniquely troubling writer is far from done yet.

Louis' project, at once aesthetic and political, is..."to create a new language for the left", capable of articulating contemporary working-class experience.

Tash Aw's sensitive translation captures the vividness of Louis's voice... Movingly, the book demonstrates the pain that moving from one social class to another entails.

A tenderness of observation... translated into English with unobtrusive flair by Tash Aw.

The key to Louis's literary appeal is that he engages with complex themes while keeping things relatively simple. His elegant concision [...] ensures that candour never lapses into self-indulgence.

Penetrating . . .Louis delivers an incisive portrait of the ways oppression and social forces brought chaos to their lives, and how they found freedom through compassion.

Louis's intimate narrative creates a pathway to understanding the complex, symbiotic nature between systems of power...Louis is in service to those overlooked by the privileged and an excellent role model for how men can become better allies to women.

In his incandescent autofiction, Édouard Louis has remade his painful youth as literature...Louis' most hopeful book to date.

Edouard Louis (Author)
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 been translated into more than thirty languages, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide.

Tash Aw (Translator)
Tash Aw is the author of We, the Survivors; The Harmony Silk Factory, which received the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Map of the Invisible World; Five Star Billionaire, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and the memoir The Face: Strangers on a Pier.