It is rare to read a real novel which also has the power of a history book and would decipher the mixed links between France and Algeria - but a story which would be viewed and written from the level of a woman, a child from what is called a “mixed marriage”.
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Yasmina Liassine writes her first novel, but it has the overtones of maturity because, from the start, we feel that she knows what she is talking about, deep down in her being and her story.
Its strength is that it maintains a fair, broad vision, full of nuances.
Without doubt, his parentage - an Algerian father, a French mother - allows him to embrace greater and less Manichean.
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It took her a while to put pen to paper; she waited years after leaving Algiers, where she grew up and studied, before settling in France.
This geographical and temporal distance was necessary to try to piece together the puzzle of his story and that of his parents.
The narrator explains it well:
“Today…
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