Name by Constance Debré

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.
 
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'Brilliantly spiky ... As well as boasting compelling, sharp prose, Name forces readers to question what one's name means - and to who'  - AnOther Magazine, Best Books of 2025
 
'Unsettling and beautiful, admirably unabashed' -  Los Angeles Review of Books
 
'Written with edge and urgency in a voice that is both vulnerable and in full command' - Colm Tóibín