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A Woman’s Battles and Transformations

Yazan: Édouard Louis, Tash Aw - translator
Seslendiren: Joseph Kloska
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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

'Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian

© Édouard Louis 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Poetic, tender, joyous.
Heartbreaking... You suspect this uniquely troubling writer is far from done yet.
Louis' project, at once aesthetic and political, is..."to create a new language for the left", capable of articulating contemporary working-class experience.
Tash Aw's sensitive translation captures the vividness of Louis's voice... Movingly, the book demonstrates the pain that moving from one social class to another entails.
A tenderness of observation... translated into English with unobtrusive flair by Tash Aw.
The key to Louis's literary appeal is that he engages with complex themes while keeping things relatively simple. His elegant concision [...] ensures that candour never lapses into self-indulgence.
Penetrating . . .Louis delivers an incisive portrait of the ways oppression and social forces brought chaos to their lives, and how they found freedom through compassion.
Louis's intimate narrative creates a pathway to understanding the complex, symbiotic nature between systems of power...Louis is in service to those overlooked by the privileged and an excellent role model for how men can become better allies to women.
In his incandescent autofiction, Édouard Louis has remade his painful youth as literature...Louis' most hopeful book to date.
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I listened in one go as I was intrigued by the relationship between son and mother, how it changed and the reasons. I look forward to more from Edouard Louis.

Beautifully recounted life

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
Á beautifully written and sometimes shocking account about the relationship between mother and son and extended family. The reading brings it all to life sympathetically.

Excellent

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
Fantastic little book, beautifully written and read, I just wish it was a little longer I would love to know more about the boy.

Beautiful

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
This is a really good book, Louis’ economical, but yet impactful depictions, really sits with you long after you have finished reading. I read this after his first book, «The End of Eddy», which is a little longer. I thought this book ended too quickly, and I would love to read more about the relationship between son and mother.

Another beautiful work by Louis

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