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History of Violence

Di: Édouard Louis, Lorin Stein - translator
Letto da: Joseph Kloska
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of History of Violence by Edouard Louis, read by Joseph Kloska.

The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy

I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria.

We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o'clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me. He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began.

History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, dispossession, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand, and to outline, a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.

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Louis’s greatest strength as a writer is that he feels things so passionately, sometimes to the point of obsession, but that he also has a philosophical turn of mind that explores, rather than neutralises, his feelings. (Edmund White)
[B]oth brave and ambitious in its determination never to let its reader, or its author, escape lightly the damaging realities it describes. (Tim Adams)
[A] harrowing piece of autofiction… History of Violence is a slim but densely layered novel that begins with raw urgency. (Johanna Thomas-Corr)
An intense and uncomfortably thrilling book, which uses the harrowing events of that Christmas Eve as a basis for a wider exploration of class, race and individualism... a novel that is unflinching in its examination of class and discrimination. (Tash Aw)
[Louis] writes with this amazing honesty and fantastically uncensored, brutal, beautiful clarity. (Ben Whishaw)
A searing account of assault… among the most formally audacious and inventive novels I’ve encountered in recent years. The whole book is balanced on a knife’s edge: between tenderness and violence, rage and remorse. This brilliant English translation captures the sinuosity and force of Louis’s French. An absolute astonishment (Garth Greenwell)
A painful and astonishing book, it tells the story of that night and its aftermath with ruthless poise and clinical precision… With almost superhuman compassion and moral courage, Louis traces the origins of Reda’s suffering by reconstructing his father’s story.
History of Violence…pack[s] total immersion and cool detachment into a single page. As translator, Lorin Stein keeps faith with its rawness — and its refinement.
[A] provocative, incendiary and stunning second book.
Once more, Édouard Louis has given us something unique; a book so direct, shocking and moving it is like holding live fire in one's hands as the pages turn. Like all great writers, he shows us something of the self so that we might better understand something of the world.
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