Edouard Louis

• May-2017
• / Literary

An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. “Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again ... Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor v...

• Jun-2018
• / Literary

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris,...

• Mar-2024
• / Literary

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, BBC, and Hudson BooksellersA New Yorker Recommended Read of the YearAn autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation -- about social class, transformat...

• Jun-2026
• / Literary

From ???one of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation??? (The Guardian), an unflinching account of ??douard Louis???s brother???s life and death.??douard???s brother spent much of his life dreaming. He liv...

• Jun-2026
• / Literary

When ??douard???s mother reveals she is???not for the first time???enduring an abusive relationship, mother and son plot her next steps in what is at once an edge-of-the-seat escape narrative and a meditation on freedom and renewal.Late one night, ??...