Hate: A Romance

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In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals - Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism - come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, looks back on the decade and on the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfolds - one in which love turns to hate and fidelity turns to betrayal, in both affairs of the heart and politics.

With great verve and ingenuity, Garcia lays claim to an era that promised freedom as never before, and he paints an indelible, sharp, but sympathetic portrait of intellectuals lost in the age of MTV.

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Among the first novels we read this season, the most mind-blowing is by twenty-seven-year-old Tristan Garcia: "Hate: A Romance," a morality tale that grapples with the political and intellectual battles of the last two decades of French life and how those are caught up in the sex lives of the protagonists. A novel were still reeling from, and which weve chosen to put at the very top of our honor roll."Les Inrockuptibles
"One of the revelations of the literary season . . . An intimate, romantic, political, and cultural fresco [of the 1980s], a portrait startling in its accuracy. Christine Rousseau, "Le Monde
"The real eye-opener of the season . . . A novel that made me reassess a decade that Id lived through with my eyes closed. It took an upstart philosopher . . . to make me understand what was going on when I was twenty years old, when the Left became the Right. Frdric Beigbeder,

Author Bio

Tristan Garcia was born in 1981 in Toulouse and attended Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where he specialised in Philosophy. He is the author of a book of philosophy, The Image, published in 2007. Hate: A Romance is his first novel.