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[2021]
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"In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during...
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"The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the Country of Others"--
Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed...
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Pays des autres volume 1
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Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Français
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Après la Libération, Mathilde, une jeune Alsacienne, et Amine Belhaj, un Marocain ancien combattant dans l'armée française, s'installent à Meknès. Dans cette ville où le système de ségrégation coloniale s'applique rigoureusement, le couple doit se battre pour faire sa place, entre sacrifices, humiliations et racisme. Une histoire inspirée par la grand-mère de l'auteure qui se clôt en 1956.
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al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī
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2021.
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Arabic
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Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco to start a farm. While Amine tries to cultivate the rocky and unforgiving terrain, Mathilde feels suffocated by the harsh climate. Alone and isolated with her two children, she struggles with assimilation and classism.
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