A Woman's Battles and Transformations - Paperback

by Édouard Louis (Author), Tash Aw (Translator)

Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation Prize

Édouard Louis's bracing and honest memoir of his mother's liberation--a "poetic, tender, joyous" account (The Guardian).

Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: "I did it. I left your father." Suddenly, she was free.

A Woman's Battles and Transformations is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman's escape: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives--and with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Édouard Louis, "one of France's most widely read and internationally successful novelists" (The New York Times Magazine).

Author Biography

Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father, A Woman's Battles and Transformations, and Change, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. 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.

Tash Aw is the author of five novels, including We, the Survivors, and a memoir of a Chinese-Malaysian family, Strangers on a Pier, both finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has also won the Whitbread and Commonwealth Prizes and an O. Henry Award, and twice been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His fiction has been translated into twenty-three languages.