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Product details
- ISBN 9780863564024
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2022
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. Alternating fragments from Yamina's Algerian past with those of her Paris present, Discretion spans the history of colonial conflict from the Second World War to the present day. A tribute to mothers everywhere, it is also the story of a modern French family feeling their way through the puzzle of their history - and finding one another as they go along.
Faiza Guene is a bestselling and award-winning French Algerian writer and director. Spotted at a writing workshop at the age of eighteen, she made an astonishing literary debut with her international bestseller, Kiffe kiffe demain (Just Like Tomorrow), which has been translated into more than thirty languages. Her other novels in English include Dreams from the Endz, Bar Balto, and Men Don't Cry. Guene has acquired a reputation as one of France's most unique contemporary literary voices. She has directed several short films and is a co-writer on Disney Star's mini-series Oussekine (forthcoming May 2022). Sarah Ardizzone has translated more than fifty titles from around the French-speaking world, including by Daniel Pennac, Gael Faye, Alain Mabanckou and Yasmina Reza. Her translation of Faiza Guene's Kiffe-Kiffe Demain (Just Like Tomorrow) won the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the IBBY UK Honour title, and was shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award and longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
