In the Country of Others: A Novel
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Leila Slimani. (2021). In the Country of Others: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.

Leila Slimani. 2021. In the Country of Others: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.

Leila Slimani, In the Country of Others: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2021.

Leila Slimani. In the Country of Others: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2021.

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The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that “lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating experience of war” (The New York Times Book Review)
After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Mathilde’s fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country’s fight for independence in this lush and transporting novel about race, resilience, and women’s empowerment.

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     March 1, 2021
     

     In the latest from Slimani, author of the New York Times best-booked The Perfect Nanny, young Frenchwoman Mathilde marries a Moroccan soldier after World War II and settles in his country, soon suffering culture shock and the suspicion of those around her. With a 50,000-copy first printing.

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     Morocco's decolonization provides the backdrop for this interracial family drama. Tall, fair-skinned Mathilde anticipates a life of adventure and exoticism when, in 1945, she marries Amine Belhaj, a stocky, dark-skinned Moroccan whose French army regiment is stationed in her Alsatian village. Instead, upon returning to Amine's home city of Meknes, the newlyweds move in with Amine's mother while struggling to evict a tenant from the land Amine inherited from his father. When, years later, the couple finally regains control of the remote property and relocates, an increasingly dour Amine works day and night to try to farm the stony acreage, leaving a lonely Mathilde to raise their daughter, A�cha, and son, Selim. As clashes between the country's pro-independence nationalists and French colonists grow violent, each of the characters suffers feelings of otherness. Amine sympathizes with his compatriots, though he's not militant, and he secretly holds the French in esteem. Mathilde craves acceptance but chafes against her new home's views regarding the subjugation of women. And while biracial A�cha's frizzy hair and secondhand clothes make her an outcast at her French-run Catholic school, its religious teachings are the young girl's greatest solace. First in a planned trilogy inspired by her family's history, Franco-Moroccan author Slimani's latest unfolds over the course of a decade via vignettes capturing the internal and external struggles of the Belhajs and their loved ones. The woolly narrative structure occasionally blurs the plot's focus and saps it of drive, but Slimani's visceral prose never fails to reel readers back in. An affecting tale of evolution and revolution.

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     The first book in a planned three-part series, award-winning author Slimani's (The Perfect Nanny, 2018) historical epic follows the families of two people brought together by war. French Alsatian Mathilde falls in love at first sight with Amine, a Moroccan soldier for the French Colonial Army in WWII as he passes through her war-torn border town. At war's end, she goes to Morocco as Amine's wife, not immediately a fish out of water as Europeans leave their mark everywhere under the French Protectorate. Slimani closely follows strong-willed Mathilde and also offers access to Amine, who has unshakable hopes for their farm; the couple's young daughter, A�cha; and several other family members and friends. As the movement for Moroccan independence mounts in the early 1950s, everyone finds themselves in a country where belonging feels conditional due to their religion, their national loyalties, and, perhaps most of all, their gender. Slimani, whose background is French and Moroccan, offers a propulsive beginning to a family saga that's rich in history, setting, and the difficulties inherent in her characters' choices.

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After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Mathilde’s fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country’s fight for independence in this lush and transporting novel about race, resilience, and women’s empowerment.

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