The art of losing / Alice Zeniter ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeniter, Alice, author.

Contributor:

Wynne, Frank, translator.

Standardized Title:

Art de perdre. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

History.

Immigrants.

Algerians.

Algeria.

France.

Algerians--France--Fiction.

Immigrants--France--Fiction.

Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Influence--Fiction.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

History.

Novels.

Physical Description:

434 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.

The Algerian War for Independence sent Naïma's grandfather on a journey, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant barely scratching out a living in the north. Naïma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Naïma can't understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her grandmother carried when they fled. Naïma's father claims to remember nothing; he has made himself French. Now Naïma is traveling to Algeria to see for herself what was left behind-- including her family's secrets. -- adapted from jacket

Notes:

"Originally published in French in 2017 by Flammarion, France, as L'Art de perdre"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780374182304

0374182302

OCLC:

1153487683