douards 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 fathers 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. This book is the story of his collapse. Translated by TASH AW

Format: Hardcover
Published: UK, 2026
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Pages: 196
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1787305031
ISBN 13: 9781787305038