A young French woman leaves Paris after the liberation in 1944 and joins her husband on a farm in Morocco, where she finds herself lonely, alienated, mistrusted and increasingly restless. The growing complexity of her situation is mirrored by Morocco’s struggle for independence. This first volume of a projected trilogy is loosely based on Slimani’s grandmother’s life.
The Country of Others
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£14.99
Edition:Hardback978057136161805/08/2021
Categories: 05. Summer Books 2021: Fiction, Fiction, Summer Books 2021
Tags: Family life fiction, Historical fiction
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