In 1944, Mathilde, a young Alsatian woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan fighting in the French army. After the Liberation, the couple settles in Morocco in Meknes, a garrison town and settlers. While Amine tries to develop an estate ma ...
In 1944, Mathilde, a young Alsatian woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan fighting in the French army. After the Liberation, the couple settles in Morocco in Meknes, a garrison town and settlers. While Amine tries to develop an estate made up of rocky and barren land, Mathilde quickly feels stifled by the harsh climate of Morocco. Alone and isolated on the farm with her two children, she suffers from the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner and from the lack of money. Will the couple's hard work bear fruit? The ten years covered by the novel are also those of an inevitable rise in tensions and violence that will lead to the independence of the former protectorate in 1956.
All the characters in this novel live in "the country of others": the settlers as well as the natives, the soldiers as well as the peasants or the exiles. The women, especially, live in the country of men and must constantly fight for their emancipation. After two novels with a clinical and sharp style, Leïla Slimani, in this great fresco, brings back to life an era and its actors with humanity, accuracy, and a very subtle sense of narration.
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