A Woman-s Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author-s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.
One day, -ouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago. A picture of a happy young woman full of hopes and dreams. Growing up, -ouard knew only his mother-s sadness, as she found herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife, and her struggles against the dominant world of men. What happened in those years since the photo was taken?
Then, at the age of forty-five, his mother frees herself from this oppression. She leaves her husband and her old life behind to start anew in Paris.
A Woman-s Battles and Transformations is -ouard Louis-s most tender book yet. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives, with politics and power-and with the possibility of escape. It is an exquisite and loving portrait of a mother, and an ho
