{"product_id":"history-of-violence-oxford","title":"History Of Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o'clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me. He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHistory of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, class, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It stays with you' Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A heartbreaking novel' John Boyne\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46193377870003,"sku":"9781784706074","price":639.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81LwBVbhG8L.jpg?v=1791549842","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/history-of-violence-oxford","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}