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Le pays des autres. Première partie, La guerre, la guerre, la guerre

Slimani, Leïla, 1981-2021

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"En 1944, Mathilde tombe amoureuse d'Amine, un Marocain venu combattre dans l'armée française. Rêvant de quitter son Alsace natale, la jeune femme s'installe avec lui à Meknès pour y fonder une famille. Mais les désillusions s'accumulent : le manque d'argent, le racisme et les humiliations fragilisent leur couple. Dans ce pays ambivalent, qui réclame une indépendance que les hommes refusent pourtant aux femmes, Mathilde réussira-t-elle à poursuivre sa quête de liberté sans heurter ceux qu'elle aime?" -- Back cover."Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco to start a farm. While Amine tries to cultivate the rocky and unforgiving terrain, Mathilde feels suffocated by the harsh climate. Alone and isolated with her two children, she struggles with assimilation and classism. The ten years of the novel are also those of a rise in tensions and violence that will lead in 1956 to Morocco's independence. All the characters in this novel live "in the country of others": settlers versus natives, soldiers versus peasants, and exiles. Women, especially, live in the country of men, and must constantly fight for their emancipation. "-- goodreads.com.