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The art of losing / Alice Zeniter ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
"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 from the French. |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. History. Novels. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | F ZENITER (Text) | 000161266 | Fiction | Available | - |