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Who Killed My Father

By: Édouard Louis
Narrated by: Edouard Louis
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Penguin presents the audio edition of Who Killed My Father, written and read by Edouard Louis.

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.

In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship.

Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty.

It unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude – those who have their expectations, hopes and passions crushed by a society which gives them little thought.

©2019 Edouard Louis (P)2019 Penguin Audio Politics & Government Racism & Discrimination Social Policy Social Sciences Discrimination Social justice

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Critic reviews

Edouard Louis [is] the vanguard of France’s new generation of political writers (Arjun Neil Alim)
Edouard Louis… speaks with an emotional authenticity and a stylistic confidence that is hard to ignore (Tim Adams)
This short work tackles the intersections of class, gender and sexuality... Louis gives voice to the way the cruel, crude hegemony of masculinity has essentially destroyed his father’s life, making him “as much a victim of the violence” he inflicted as of the violence he endured (Lauren Elkin)
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A brutal depiction of a person whose - emotional, physical, psychological (sexual?)- growth was restricted; bound about by the barbed wire of poverty.

This sounds unspeakably grim but love shines through too; it's not a classic misery memoir, the author's voice makes it a smoother, more poetic listen.

I'd like to have learned more and beware this is a very short book - not much listening for your credit - but still I recommend.

Short and to the point

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