Name

'Debré's voice is Camusian, comic, stark, relentless and totally hypnotic' Rachel Kushner

Name is Debré's most intense novel yet, a fresh feat of sharp, spare, yet explosive prose.

Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our various inheritances: name, family, class, habits. As the novel unravels, freedom is revealed as a redefining of these relationships on one's own terms. Brilliant and unflinching, Name affirms and extends Debré's radical project.