Publication Date: 08/02/2024 ISBN: 9781787303256 Category:

Change

Edouard Louis, John Lambert

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 08/02/2024 ISBN: 9781787303256 Category:
Hardback

£18.99

Become the envy of all book lovers with your own Mr B’s sticker to show off where you do your shopping.

Quantity:

Description

The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy

‘One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation’ Kieran Goddard, Guardian

‘Change fills me with admiration and inspiration, as well as renewed faith in writing itself’ Maggie Nelson

‘One of the major writers of our time’ Garth Greenwell

‘A mesmeric novel’ Daily Mail

Edouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination and violence in his working-class hometown – so he sets out to study in Amiens, and, later, at university in Paris. He sheds the provincial ‘Eddy’ for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug dealers alike.

Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. Change is at once a personal odyssey, a story of dreams, friendship and the perils of leaving the past behind, and a profound portrait of a society divided by class, inequality and power.

Translated by John Lambert

Find this book on the following lists

Book experts at your service

What are you looking for?

A recommendation
Something specific
  • Mr B's Recommendation Station
  • Fill in the three questions below, along with your name and email address, and our book experts will be in touch soon with their personal recommendations

  • I'm after something specific
  • Tell us about the book, author or subject you're looking for, along with your name and email address and our book experts will be in touch as soon as possible