The art of losing - Alice Zeniter

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Summary:

For a long time, Naïma's family's native Algeria has been nothing more than a background without much interest. However, in a French society where identity issues are at the forefront, everything seems to send her back to her origins. But what link could she have with a family history that has never been told to her? Her grandfather Ali, a Kabyle mountain dweller, died before she could ask him why history had made him a "harki.
Yema, her grandmother, could perhaps answer but not in a language that Naïma could understand. As for Hamid, her father, who arrived in France in the summer of 1962 in the transit camps that were hastily set up, he no longer speaks of the Algeria of his childhood. How to bring back a country from silence?

Author's Biography:

Alice Zeniter was born in 1986. She has published four novels, including Sombre dimanche, winner of the Livre Inter prize, the L'Express readers' prize and the Closerie des Lilas prize, and Juste avant l'Oubli, winner of the Renaudot des lycéens prize. She is a playwright and director.