Change -- ?douard Louis, Hardcover

An autobiographical novel from ﾉdouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation--about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.

One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.

ﾉdouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown--so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial "Eddy" for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug-dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound, Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of "the beautiful violence of being torn away," but a vividly rendered portrait of a society divided by class, power, and inequality.

Author: ﾉdouard Louis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780374606800

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2023 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2024
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2024
Library Journal 02/01/2024 pg. 67
Booklist 02/15/2024 pg. 20

About the Author

ﾉdouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father, and A Woman's Battles and Transformations. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Freeman's. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. He lives in Paris.

John Lambert has translated Monsieur, Reticence, and Self-Portrait Abroad, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, as well as Emmanuel Carr鑽e's Yoga, 97,196 Words, Limonov, and The Kingdom. He lives in Nantes, in northwestern France.