3 Ergebnisse.

This funny and disarming novel touchingly evokes the realities of an Algerian family carving out a future for themselves in France.

* A warm and humorous novel about working-class Algerian women in France as they reconcile their inherited trauma of migration with forging a future on their terms by an internationally bestselling and award-winning author.

Mourad and his family live in Nice. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard, his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa. Dounia, the eldest, is a staunch feminist, Mina, the youngest, blushes when the scented shower gel ad comes on. Mourad is strangely torn between a desire for freedom and the fear of his worst nightmare: that of becoming an overweight bachelor with salt and pepper hair. On ...