Discretion (Saqi Bookshelf) - Hardcover

Guene, Faiza

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863569765 ISBN 13: 9780863569760

Verlag: Saqi, 2024

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Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, grateful to the country that hosts her and her adored family. The closest she gets to drama is scooping revolutionary bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets. But Yaminas children feel differently about life in Paris. They dont always fit in, and it hurts. Omar wonders whether its too late to change course as he watches the world pass him by from the drivers seat of his Uber. His sisters are tired of having to prove themselves and their allegiance to a place that is at once home, and not. When the Talebs go away together on holiday not to the motherland, but to a villa-with-pool rental near the Atlantic coast they come to realise just how strongly family defines our sense of belonging. Moving between Algeria and Paris, Discretion touchingly evokes the realities of a first- and second-generation family as they carve out a future for themselves in France, finding one another as they go along.

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Faïza Guène is a bestselling and award-winning French Algerian writer and director. Spotted at a writing workshop at the age of eighteen, she made an astonishing literary debut with her international bestseller, Kiffe-Kiffe Demain (Just Like Tomorrow), which sold over 250,000 copies and has been translated into more than thirtylanguages. Her other novels in English include Dreams from the Endz, Bar Balto, and MenDon’t Cry. Guène has acquired a reputation as one of France’s most unique contemporary literary voices. She has directed several short films and co-wrote Disney Star’s hard-hitting drama Oussekine. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Saqi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0863569765
• ISBN 13: 9780863569760
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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