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In a vivid, tender and uncompromising novel of male violence and destruction, once-in-a-generation writer Édouard Louis looks back on the life and death of his deeply troubled older brother. Édouard's brother spends much of his life dreaming. He lives in a poor, working-class world, where he...
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In a vivid, tender and uncompromising novel of male violence and destruction, once-in-a-generation writer Édouard Louis looks back on the life and death of his deeply troubled older brother.
Édouard's brother spends much of his life dreaming. He lives in a poor, working-class world, where he imagines that he will become one of the finest butchers in France, that he will travel, that he will make his fortune, that he will restore cathedrals, that he will earn his father's love.
But his reality allows none of this. There is no way to escape, no one who can show him how, and everything about him—his drinking, his violence, his behaviour with women and with others—condemns him.
At thirty-eight, he is found dead on the floor of his small studio apartment. Collapse is the story of his collapse.
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ISBN: 9781787305038
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Harvill
Contributors:
- Translated by Tash Aw
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 222.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 208
About the Author
douard Louis (Author) douard 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, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. Tash Aw (Translator) 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 won 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 douard Louis' A Woman's Battles and Transformations was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize.
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