Collapse

What Édouard Louis has to say is so urgent that I buy all his books as soon as they’re out in French. I am so glad that English-speakers can now access his latest departure through Tash Aw’s new translation. COLLAPSE unites Louis’s trademark sociological sharpness with a new and quite terrifying psychological depth, giving us a life at once overdetermined and touched by something darker, more elusive. He has never been tenderer, more sophisticated, or more fully on form. – Naoise Dolan
Édouard Louis surely belongs to that vital group of writers, amongst the likes of Cusk, Rankine and Ernaux, who have revitalised and reinvented their own form in a relentless pursuit of the truth – Andrew McMillan
Spare, raw - and quite unforgettably moving. Édouard Louis is someone who makes writing matter – Neil Bartlett
Full of writing that is both rigorously controlled and profoundly shaken, Collapse is a bracing, pulverising book. It burns with white-hot truth, the sort that illuminates even as it incinerates – Colin Walsh
Tash Aw’s translation underlines Louis’s pitiless lucidity: this is a very different read from the breezier, more sentimental accounts that British working-class intellectuals have tended to give of such journeys * Literary Review *

Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, Change, Monique Escapes, and Collapse. He also edited a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, establishing him as one of the most celebrated writers of his generation globally.

Tash Aw

Tash Aw was born in Taiwan and is the author of five novels. Three of his novels have been longlisted for the Booker Prize, including his most recent novel, The South. His work has received numerous accolades, such as the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and an O. Henry Award. His writings have been translated into over twenty languages. His translation of Édouard Louis’ A Woman’s Battles and Transformations was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize.

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