A Woman’s Battles and Transformations

Poetic, tender, joyous. * Guardian *
Heartbreaking… You suspect this uniquely troubling writer is far from done yet. * Observer *
Louis’ project, at once aesthetic and political, is…“to create a new language for the left”, capable of articulating contemporary working-class experience. * New Statesman *
Tash Aw’s sensitive translation captures the vividness of Louis’s voice… Movingly, the book demonstrates the pain that moving from one social class to another entails. * Times Literary Supplement *
A tenderness of observation… translated into English with unobtrusive flair by Tash Aw. * New York Times *
The key to Louis’s literary appeal is that he engages with complex themes while keeping things relatively simple. His elegant concision […] ensures that candour never lapses into self-indulgence. * The Spectator *
Penetrating …Louis delivers an incisive portrait of the ways oppression and social forces brought chaos to their lives, and how they found freedom through compassion. * Publishers Weekly *
Louis’s intimate narrative creates a pathway to understanding the complex, symbiotic nature between systems of power…Louis is in service to those overlooked by the privileged and an excellent role model for how men can become better allies to women. * The Brooklyn Rail *
In his incandescent autofiction, Édouard Louis has remade his painful youth as literature…Louis’ most hopeful book to date. * Los Angeles Times *

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 was born in Taiwan and is the author of five novels, three of which have been longlisted for the Booker Prize, including his most recent novel, The South. His work has received the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and an O. Henry Award, and has 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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