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Algérie Histoire 20e siècle Romans, nouvelles, etc Families Fiction FICTION / Literary FICTION / Women Pieds-noirs Algérie Histoire Romans, nouvelles, etc Pieds-noirs France Histoire Romans, nouvelles, etc Pieds-noirs Romans, nouvelles, etc Secret Romans, nouvelles, etc Secrets de famille Romans, nouvelles, etc Short storiesFilter By Subjects
Algérie Histoire 20e siècle Romans, nouvelles, etc Families Fiction FICTION / Literary FICTION / Women Pieds-noirs Algérie Histoire Romans, nouvelles, etc Pieds-noirs France Histoire Romans, nouvelles, etc Pieds-noirs Romans, nouvelles, etc Secret Romans, nouvelles, etc Secrets de famille Romans, nouvelles, etc Short storiesDanticat, Edwidge
Summary: From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart-- a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat-- some...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the Pieds-Noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state--separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This novel is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024