The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy 'One of the most
important politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation' Keiran Goddard
Guardian ' Change fills me with admiration and inspiration as well as renewed faith in
writing itself' Maggie Nelson 'One of the major writers of our time' Garth Greenwell 'I
read everything he writes' Esi Edugyan 'A mesmeric novel' Daily Mail Édouard Louis longs
for a life beyond the poverty discrimination and violence in his working-class hometown - so
he sets out to study in Amiens and later at 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. Change
is at once a personal odyssey a story of dreams friendship and the perils of leaving the past
behind and a profound portrait of a society divided by class inequality and power.
Translated by John Lambert
