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The art of losing / Alice Zeniter ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

Zeniter, Alice, (author.). Wynne, Frank, (translator.).

Summary:

"A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.

The Algerian War for Independence sent Naïma's grandfather on a journey, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant barely scratching out a living in the north. Naïma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Naïma can't understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her grandmother carried when they fled. Naïma's father claims to remember nothing; he has made himself French. Now Naïma is traveling to Algeria to see for herself what was left behind-- including her family's secrets. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9780374182304
ISBN: 0374182302
Physical Description: 434 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published in French in 2017 by Flammarion, France, as L'Art de perdre"--Title page verso.
Language Note:	Translated into English from French.