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Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A nameless young man lives in the housing projects outside of Paris. When he was a child, his parents moved with him from the Congo to France, hoping in vain to escape poverty and violence. His best friend, Drissa, is in a psychiatric hospital and now Mireille, his girlfriend, the woman with whom he has shared his childhood and hopes, has left him to reconnect with her Jewish roots in Israel. During a night out to drown the pain of his heartache,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The international bestseller. A novel about the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. A novel that captures the sometimes stark contrast between old and new-world values, and an immigrant's abiding pursuit of home.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this poignant first novel of memory, identity, and generational trauma, a child of political refugees tries to uncover the past his dying father kept secret, painting a powerful, layered portrait of Iraq from the 1950s to the 2000s. At the beginning of the 1970s, the young Rami decided to flee the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. A political refugee in France, he is a taciturn man, evasive about his past. At the end of his life, hospitalized for...
Author
Series
Stables family chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Daisy Dog Press
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1885, two lesbian widows (Annie and Euphémie) and a precocious young boy (Auguste) are forced by murderous circumstances to flee their French village. Further circumstances--and a quartet of missionaries representing a Christian sect/cult that celebrates solemnity--stow them away within the Statue of Liberty's head on a trans-Atlantic steamer that arrives in New York after a surviving a giant narwhal that has reduced the Solemnitic missionaries...
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