Hate: A Romance

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 this 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 10/26/2010
ISBN: 9780865479111
Pages: 273
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/12/2010
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2010
New York Times Book Review 11/07/2010 pg. 13