Leïla Slimani
Autore di The Perfect Nanny
Sull'Autore
Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and mostra altro women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. In this fearless expos of the secrets and lies of women's intimate lives, Slimani combines vivid, often harrowing testimonies with her passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world. mostra meno
Opere di Leïla Slimani
The Country of Others 2 copie
La baie de Dakhla : Itinérance enchantée entre mer et désert (Histoire et sociétés du Maroc saharien) (2014) 2 copie
Adele 1 copia
නැළවිලි ගීයක් 1 copia
Una dolça canço 2016 1 copia
Regardez-nous danser 2 1 copia
Regardez-nous danser 1 1 copia
Katsokaa kun tanssimme 1 copia
A mains nues - Tome 2 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Slimani, Leïla
- Data di nascita
- 1981-10-03
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Morocco
France - Nazione (per mappa)
- Morocco
- Luogo di nascita
- Rabat, Morocco
- Istruzione
- Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris
Institut d'études politiques, Paris
Lycée Fénelon, Paris
Lycée français Descartes, Rabat, Maroc - Attività lavorative
- Journaliste
Romancière - Organizzazioni
- Jeune Afrique, Magazine (Journaliste, 2008l2012)
L'Express, Magazine (Journaliste) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2017)
Utenti
Discussioni
My (kjuliff) January books in 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (Gennaio 2023)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 27
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 2,849
- Popolarità
- #9,009
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 154
- ISBN
- 170
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 1
In the Country of Others is a historical fiction by Moroccan author Leïla Slimani, set in Morocco in the 1940s and 1950s. It is the first book of a trilogy.
French Catholic Mathilde meets handsome Muslim Moroccan soldier Amine Belhaj in 1944 when he is stationed in Alsace fighting for the French in WWII. The two fall in love and after the war Mathilde moves from Strasbourg to Rabat, Morocco, to start what she envisages to be a romantic adventurous exotic life. The reality is somewhat different, and she struggles with the hot, dusty isolation and confines of her new life. On the one hand she is shunned by the French for marrying a Moroccan and the locals perceive her to be a foreigner. Amine shifts from being the romantic hero to a controlling, abusive workaholic determined to get ahead. He also is torn between his sympathies with his countrymen (including his brother Oman) who are pushing for independence and his loyalties to the French who he fought for.
Their daughter Aïcha also struggles at the Catholic school she attends with the cruelty of children towards those they perceive as different or other. Mathilde rages at the confines of her life and finally settles herself to giving medical aid to the villagers.
This book gives great insight into life in 1940s and 50s Morocco and the political climate of the time. My main problem was there was not one likeable character in the book. Mathilde varies from being petty and self absorbed to bizarre and almost deranged at times. Nonetheless, this was a worthwhile read but I’m not sure I’ll persist with the sequels.… (altro)