The major new novel from the onceinageneration author of The End of EddyOne of the most important politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation Keiran Goddard GuardianChange fills me with admiration and inspiration as well as renewed faith in writing itself Maggie NelsonOne of the major writers of our time Garth GreenwellI read everything he writes Esi EdugyanA mesmeric novel Daily Maildouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty discrimination and violence in his workingclass hometown so he sets out to study in Amiens and later at university in Paris. He sheds the provincial Eddy for an elegant new name determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly he dines with aristocrats he spends nights with millionaires and drug dealers alike.Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession to become someone else.