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Edouard Louis (Author) douard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father and A Woman's Battles and Transformations, 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.
Poetic, tender, joyous. * Guardian * Heartbreaking... You suspect this uniquely troubling writer is far from done yet. * Observer * Louis' project, at once aesthetic and political, is...""to create a new language for the left"", capable of articulating contemporary working-class experience. * New Statesman * 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. * Times Literary Supplement * A tenderness of observation... translated into English with unobtrusive flair by Tash Aw. * New York Times *
