History Of Violence Av Édouard Louis

<p><b>** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **</b><br><br><b>The radical, urgent new novel from the author of <i>The End of Eddy</i> - a personal and powerful story of violence.</b><br><br><i>I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, 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. </i><br><br><i>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.</i><br><br><i>History of Violence</i> retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, class, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes. <br><br><b> ''It stays with you'' <i>Times</i></b><br><br