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History of Violence

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The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of EddyI met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012.History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, dispossession, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand, and to outline, a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.

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History of Violence, Édouard Louis

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2018
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Language
English
Publisher
Vintage Books
Released
2018
Format
Hardcover
Pages
208
ISBN10
1911215752
ISBN13
9781911215752
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First published
2016
Original title
Histoire de la violence
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The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of EddyI met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012.History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, dispossession, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand, and to outline, a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.