Change A Novel

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Publisher's Synopsis

The major new novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.

One question took centre stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.

Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination and violence in his working-class hometown - so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, 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. At once harrowing and profound, Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of 'the beautiful violence of being torn away', but a profound portrait of a society divided by class, power and inequality.


Our Booksellers Say...

"The latest in Louis' autofiction project, Change follows the author/narrator as he attempts to shed the darkness and brutality of his childhood and has to negotitate high school and university. He finds himself wading deeper into a murky world of colourful characters both high and low. It promises to be a powerful (be)coming of age story, wrestling with issues of identity, class and society."
Chris Grimshaw, Bookseller at Blackwell's Manchester

Book information

ISBN: 9781787303256
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Pub date:
Edition: Hardback original
DEWEY: 843.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 398g
Height: 224mm
Width: 143mm
Spine width: 27mm