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.
Faïza Guène Boeken
7 juni 1985
Faïza Guène is een Franse schrijfster en regisseuse, wier werken vaak het leven van jongeren uit immigrantengemeenschappen verkennen. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een levendige en authentieke stem die de nuances van het dagelijks leven en culturele identiteit vastlegt. Guène duikt in thema's als zelfontdekking, generatieverschillen en culturele ontmoetingen met oog voor detail en empathie. Haar stijl is fris en toegankelijk, waardoor lezers zich diep kunnen verbinden met haar personages en hun reizen.
Men Don't Cry
- 216bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
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.
Dreams from the Endz
- 224bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year-old brother, Foued, has been permanently excluded from school and seems intent on joining the drug-dealers who share their estate, while she is left to deal with the guilt trips from their family back in Algeria.
Just Like Tomorrow
- 192bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
Fifteen-year-old Doria isn't in a good place. Still, it could be worse: Doria could be like Samra, the girl in the flat above, whose father doesn't let her out, or Youssef who has been banged up for a year for dealing in drugs and stolen cars.
Bar Balto
- 160bladzijden
- 6 uur lezen
Joel, aka 'The Rink' (because his bald patch is shiny enough to skate on), the unpopular owner of the only bar in town has been murdered. Tani's mother, Madame Levi; As the tension mounts and we're still none the wiser, the ending is as tragic as it is unexpected.
