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Édouard Louis & Tash Aw: A Woman's Battles and Transformations
Édouard Louis & Tash Aw: A Woman's Battles and Transformations
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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Aug 31, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
‘Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of external forces - society, masculinity, my father - and that things could have been otherwise.’Édouard Louis’s tender memoir of his mother is an exquisite portrait of womanhood, motherhood, the trials of both and the transcendent, fragile joy of eventual liberation. Louis, one of the leading French writers of his generation, discussed A Woman's Battles and Transformations (Harvill Secker) with its English translator the novelist Tash Aw, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Harmony Silk Factory and author most recently of We, The Survivors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Aug 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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