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Who Killed My Father
by Edouard Louis
(Harvill Secker, £10.99)
THE LACK of a question mark in Eduard Louis’s spare account of his father’s troubled life and decline is deliberate.
Who Killed My Father is not a traditional murder mystery. It is an indictment of both hyper-masculinity and turbo-charged capitalism, although his father’s life and body is very much a crime scene.
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