Name

''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''Debré''s voice is Camusian, comic, stark, relentless and totally hypnotic'' Rachel Kushner''Written with edge and urgency in a voice that is both vulnerable and in full command'' Colm Tóibín''Annie Ernaux, just edgier. Her prose is gorgeously spare and practical'' Irish IndependentName 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.