Discretion Guene Faiza
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…
Specifikacia Discretion Guene Faiza
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.Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. Not that she's sure exactly when to celebrate it, since her Algerian identity papers state a different date of birth to her French ones. These days, Yamina strives for a quiet life and to be, at best, invisible. The closest she gets to drama is flashing her pensioner's bus pass in the style of police officers she's seen on television or scooping 'revolutionary' bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets.But Yamina's children feel differently. They are made to feel out of place in Paris, and it hurts. Then, for the first time in forty years, the whole family take a holiday from the city -