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.
Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different—“girlish,” intellectually precocious, and attracted to men.
Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town, where the Far Right has channeled class solidarity into rage, racism, and homophobia. This first novel is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard and Marguerite Duras, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result—a critical and popular triumph—has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.
