History of Violence

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<p><b>The radical and urgent new novel from the author of<i>The End of Eddy</i></b> <i></i> <i>I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, 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> <i></i> <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> <i></i> <i>History of Violence</i>retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, dispossession, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand, and to outline, a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.</p>

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<b>Édouard Louis</b>is the author of two novels and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in the<i>New York Times</i>, the<i>Guardian</i>and<i>Freemans</i>. His first novel,<i>The End of Eddy</i>, was translated into more than twenty-five languages, and has made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.

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