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Le la Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has beenhidden for many years. Mildred Mortimer's impressive translation conveys the powerof Sebbar's words in English and allows English-speaking readers an opportunity tounderstand the complex relationship between past and present, metropole and colony, immigrant and citizen, that lies at the heart of this acclaimed novel.

Silence on the Shores" depicts the final day in the life of a Maghrebian immigrant in France. Having crossed the Mediterranean to "the other shore" as a young man to find work, he ultimately remained in France, married a French woman, and broke the promise he made to his mother to return home one day. Aware that death is drawing close, he fears experiencing the ultimate form of exile: dying alone, with no fellow Muslim at his side to whisper t...