Who Killed My Father (First Edition)

Edouard Louis (Author) Stein, Lorin (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0811228509 / ISBN 13: 9780811228503

Published by New Directions, New York., 2019

About this Item

First edition. First printing. Complete number sequence, including the 1. Hardbound. Very fine/Very fine. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who Killed My Father (First Edition)
• Publisher: New Directions, New York.
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811228509
• ISBN 13: 9780811228503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar EŽdouard Louis is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father

This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Édouard Louis is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father.

Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French―at the minimum―of negligent homicide.

The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely fifty years old, who can hardly walk or breathe:“You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that.

But hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love between father and son, once damaged by shame, poverty and homophobia. Yet tenderness reconciles them, even as the state is killing off his father. Louis goes after the French system with bare knuckles but turns to his long-alienated father with open arms: this passionate combination makes Who Killed My Father a heartbreaking book.

About the Author

Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, EŽDOUARD LOUIS is a novelist and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu.