Title : The Country of Others - Slimani Leïla - book

Summary :

In 1944, Mathilde, a young Alsatian woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan fighting in the French army. After the Liberation, the couple moved to Morocco's Meknes, a garrison town of settlers. While Amine attempts to develop an estate made up of rocky and barren land, Mathilde quickly feels stifled by Morocco's harsh climate. Alone and isolated on the farm with her two children, she suffers from the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner and from a lack of money. Will the couple's hard work bear fruit? The ten years covered by the novel are also those of an inevitable rise in tensions and violence that will lead to the independence of the former protectorate in 1956. All the characters in this novel live in "the land of others": settlers as well as natives, soldiers as well as peasants or exiles. Women, above all, live in a man's country and must constantly fight for their emancipation. After two clinical and sharp novels, Leïla Slimani, in this great epic, brings an era and its protagonists back to life with humanity, accuracy, and a very subtle sense of storytelling.

• EAN : 9782072887994
  
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