The Country of Others von Leïla Slimani

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 336 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Verlag: Faber&Faber, LondonFaber&Faber
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780571361625
Auflage / Bände: Export

Slimani's writing has a tremendous evocative power: we see the earth, the house, the dust. We smell the sweet scent of oranges and the acrid smell of sweat. We feel the fear when the nationalist revolt rumbles all over Morocco . . . The Country of Others is a magnificent novel. La PresseThe first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016.Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier, billeted in her town, fighting for the French.<br><br>After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France, following Amine to Morocco. But life here is unrecognizable to this brave and passionate young woman. Where she she once danced, bickered with her sister, her life is now that of a farmer's wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings.<br><br>Suffocated by the heat, by her loneliness on the farm, by the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner and by the lack of money Mathilde grows restless. As Morocco's own struggle for independence grows daily, Mathilde and Amine find themselves caught in the crossfire . . .<br><br>This story of two nations at war, two cultures at loggerheads, and one family torn apart is as tenderly observed as it is devastatingly true1GBLeïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Leïla is also the chair of the International Booker Prize 2023 judging panel. Born in Rabat, Morocco,in 1981, she lives in Portugal.

Sam Taylor was born in 1970 and is the former pop culture correspondent for the Observer. He lives in America with his family.

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