Title : The Art of Losing - Alice Zeniter - book

• Summary

Algeria, where her family originates, has long been nothing more than a backdrop of little interest to Naha. Yet, in a French society racked by questions of identity, everything seems to want to send her back to her origins. But what connection could she have with a family history that was never told to her? Her grandfather Ali, a Kabyle mountaineer, died before she could ask him why history had made him a Harki. Yema, her grandmother, could perhaps answer, but not in a language that Naha understands. As for Hamid, her father, who arrived in France in the summer of 1962 in the hastily set up transit camps, he no longer speaks of the Algeria of his childhood. How can a country of silence be resurrected? In a powerful and daring novelistic fresco, Alice Zeniter recounts the destiny, between France and Algeria, of successive generations of a family imprisoned by a tenacious past. But this book is also a great novel about the freedom to be oneself, beyond inheritance and personal or social injunctions.

• EAN : 9782081395534
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