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Who Killed My Father
Who Killed My Father | Edouard Louis
Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, E ?douard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French--at the minimum--of negligent homicide. "Racism," he quotes Ruth Gilmore, "is the exposure of certain groups to premature death." And Louis goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father--barely fifty years old, he can hardly walk or breathe: "You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death." It's as simple as that. But hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love story between a father and son badly damaged by shame, poverty and homophobia, but still so alive. Tenderness reconciles them just as the state kills off his father. Louis goes after the French system with bare knuckles but then turns to his long-alienated father with open arms: this passionate combination makes Who Killed My Father a heartbreaking book.
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mirnas
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In his last book Édouard Louis focuses on his father's story. Writing about his father life, Louis writes about his family, his identity and mostly about lower working class in France. Édouard Louis is without doubt one of the most interesting voices of the Contemporary French Literature! Don't miss out.

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thevagabondlawyer
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Revolutionary! A book of our times! You can read this in one sitting, just under 100 pages but it will make you think differently and think bravely. At the heart of this book, or novella, or essay, if you will, is not only about activism but that sense of not forgetting - of the acts of leaders, politicians, authorities that one way or another contributed to the detriment and misery of their people, their constituents. Highly recommended!👏🙏

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Twocougs
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If you‘ve never read Edouard Louis, go out and get his books. His writing is powerful and thought provoking. He makes you look straight at people, places that we don‘t always “see” or respect. He should be considered a national treasure in France and he‘s only 26.

BookBabe I adore this cover! 6y
thevagabondlawyer This book is powerful 👏 4y
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Kenny
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WOW. I finished this book in less than an hour, but it hit me so hard. Knowing Louis‘s reputation, I thought I was going to read something powerful and profound, but I had no idea how much more than that this would be. Don‘t read the descriptions. Let yourself be surprised.

BookBabe Omg, I love this book cover so much I‘ll have to read it just because of that! 😍🎨 6y
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thatbookboi
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Louis returns to his dreary home in France to visit his dying father, who is barely fifty, and it's truly haunting. A highly critical essay and a poignant interweaving of a heartbreaking story of father and son, sociology, and intense political criticism. It goes far in such a short essay, managing to tackle class wars, homophobia, and more. Heartbreaking and extremely touching at the same time, Louis has hit a new high with this.

Twocougs Anxious to get my hands on it! 6y
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