EAN: 9781787303270

A WOMANS BATTLES AND TRANSFORMATIONS - EDOUARD ...

'Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian
Everything started with a photo. To see her free  hurtling fulsomely towards the future  made
me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those
twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of external forces -
society  masculinity  my father - and that things could have been otherwise. One day  Édouard
Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago. A picture of a happy young woman
full of hopes and dreams. Growing up  Édouard only knew his mother's sadness  as she found
herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife  and her struggles against the dominant
world of men. What happened in those years since the photo was taken? Then  at the age of
forty-five  his mother frees herself from this oppression. She leaves her husband and her old
life behind  to start a new one in Paris. A Woman's Battles and Transformations is Édouard
Louis's most tender book yet. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives  with
politics and power - and with the possibility of escape. It is an exquisite and loving portrait
of a mother  and an honouring of her self-discovery and liberation as she chooses to live on
her own terms. Translated from the French by Tash Aw

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