At the beginning of Leïla Slimani’s The Country of Others, a novel based on the lives of her grandparents, Amine, a Moroccan billeted to Alsace during the Second World War, returns to his father’s farm in his native country, bringing with him his French wife, Mathilde. They settle uneasily into rural Morocco as the country wrests its independence from the French.
12 August 2021, The Tablet
Resignation and pugnacity brilliantly portrayed in Leila Slimani's latest novel
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