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I loved watching her interact with a broad cast. Mrs Burland, a counsellor who clearly cares but doesn’t quite understand. Hamoudi, her closest friend, Their lives are moving in different directions, but the bond between them remains. Shopkeepers, neighbours, aunties … Après un début qui nous interpelle et qui déclenche la révolte, le lecteur lit avec soulagement la suite de l'histoire qui redonne l'espoir et donne l'envie de le faire lire autour de soi.

A tale for anyone who has ever lived outside looking in, especially from that alien country called adolescence. A funny, heartfelt story from a wise guy who happens to be a girl. If you've ever fallen in love, if you've ever had your heart broken, this story is your story." -- Sandra Cisneros, author of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET Born in Bobigny, France, in 1985, to parents of Algerian origin, [1] Guène grew up in Pantin, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. She attended Collège Jean Jaurès, followed by Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Pantin. [2] She began studies in sociology at Université Paris VIII, in St-Denis, before abandoning them to pursue writing and directing full-time. A travers son histoire Doria livre sans misérabilisme, une image de sa banlieue parisienne, Livry-Gargan, celle de toute une communauté multi-culturelle marquée par le manque de ressources et de considération.It's also potentially educational in that there's a lot to look up about French pop culture of the late 90s and early 00s, the sort of casual references you might get IRL: e.g. saying someone looks like a certain daytime TV presenter. (The book makes sense without knowing all these references, but I enjoy finding out this sort of stuff. If you like to look things up as you go, it means that this otherwise very straightforward book might not be the most convenient read for public transport.) When France wins the final against Croatia, the camera pans across a multi-ethnic crowd, all cheering for their country. Ly won the 2019 Cannes Festival jury prize for Les Miserables and the film went on to be nominated for best international feature film. Around that time, in a writing workshop, she wrote the draft of what would become her first novel. The French teacher running the workshop asked Guène if he could show her manuscript to someone else. That "someone else" happened to be his sister, the late Isabelle Seguin, an editor at Hachette Litterature, which later became part of the Fayard publishing company. Et en effet, c'est un roman qui m'a réservé quelques surprises. Je suis d'abord rentré dans le livre avec un certain plaisir car il est écrit de façon très agréable, très fluide, très compréhensible malgré quelques termes de verlan ou dit « des cités » qui ne gênent absolument pas la lecture et font vraiment parti du langage de notre monde, donc en quelque sorte de notre quotidien. This coming of age novel was recommended to me by Rida and while I didn’t like it as much as I had hoped to, I did find it very stark and honest in its portrayal of life on the poor side in Paris, France. I don’t know about you guys but I have a very selective way of thinking about Paris. To me, it is the city of lights, romance and fluffy pastries. Before I read this book, I didn’t think about the people who populated the city, who breathe, live and animate this city. There’s this authenticity in the narrator’s voice, this matter of fact manner of relating facts that I could not help but respond to.

What she found the most violent, she says, was the terrible image this “white, bourgeois society, that I had never encountered before, assigned to me. I had no control over the way I was described, and I didn’t yet understand the true meaning behind the words they used to describe me, or even the way I was portrayed in photographs”. It's easy to imagine what a challenge the novel presented for Kover. She even remarked that it was " certainly the most slang-heavy novel I've translated. I translated the novel Life, Only Better by Anna Gavalda and that had quite a lot of slang in it, but this was on a different level and it was another type of slang entirely". The older brother proves to be a reliable narrator, describing Paris and its outskirts to the reader, as well as musing on how various communities live side by side and his worries about his missing younger brother. When he shows up, it's up to the older brother to figure out what his sibling has been up to and what to do with him. The startling conclusion of Grand Fre re is deliberately left open-ended, as Guven had a sequel in mind. France prides itself on "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité", but this book punches some holes in that old facade.

I got a letter from a woman who was almost 90 years old, a Frenchwoman who had been a teacher in Algeria. She wrote to tell me she had no heirs and no money but a library with lots of novels from her time in Algeria. When she read Discretion, she realised she wanted to leave her books to me. Her letter made me cry. She sent me a box with all the books. It was wonderful, full of incredible things: the first manifestos of the Front de Libération Nationale [the Algerian independence movement], novels by Algerian authors in Arabic and a French translation of what is considered the first official Algerian novel, Le vent du sud by Abdelhamid Benhadouga. It’s an extraordinary book. She’s moody at times like all teenagers are but she loves her mom and wants to better their lives and she got spunk to go with it - I’m sure both these women will do just fine on their own. Later when my breasts are bigger and I’m a little bit more intelligent, like when I’m adult, I’ll join up with a group that helps people...

The difference with her parents’ generation and their children’s, says Guène, is that they accepted not being considered French because they hadn’t grown up in France. “But I was told that I was French, a child of the republic. It was an unkept promise.” Son premier roman, "Kiffe kiffe demain", a été l'une des meilleures ventes de l'année 2004. Elle publie en 2006 "Du rêve pour les oufs", puis, en 2008, "Les gens du Balto", aux éditions Hachette Littératures. En 2014, "Un homme, ça ne pleure pas" chez Fayard est lauréat du Prix littéraire des lycéens et apprentis de Bourgogne en 2015. And it was lovely to meet Doria and Yasmina. Their relationship was the best thing of all. Doria’s pride in her mother and how she was working to support them both. Yasmina’s confidence in her daughter, tempered with concern and uncertainly about what the future might hold. Her debut novel, Kiffe kiffe demain, was published in 2004 when Guène was 19 years old. It has sold more than 400,000 copies and been translated into 26 different languages. The novel was translated into English in 2006 by Sarah Ardizzone under the title Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (US) and Just Like Tomorrow (UK) . Her second work, Du rêve pour les oufs, was released on 2006 in France and translated into English by Ardizzone as Dreams from the Endz.Anger is a central theme for Guène, who examines it in her forthcoming book, La Discretion, and fervently hopes for her young daughter’s sake that their generation can overcome it. In the 2016 documentary Nos Plumes (Our Writers), filmmaker Keira Maameri (whose parents are also Algerian) focused on Guène and other authors and comics artists from the banlieues who are still perceived in France as being “different”.

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