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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.
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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The first time Mathilde visited the farm, she thought: It's too remote. The isolation made her anxious. He didn't have a car back then, in 1947, so they crossed the fifteen miles from Meknes on an old cart, driven by a gypsy. Amine paid no attention to the discomfort of the wooden bench, nor to the dust that made his wife cough. He had eyes only for the landscape. He was eager to reach the estate that his father had left him.
In 1935, after years spent working as a translator in the colonial army, Kadour Belhaj had purchased these hectares of stony ground. He'd told his son how he hoped to turn it into a flourishing farm that would feed generations of Belhaj children. Amine remembered his father's gaze, his unwavering voice as he described his plans for the farm. Acres of vines, he'd explained, and whole hectares given over to cereals. They would build a house on the sunniest part of the hill, surrounded by fruit trees. The driveway would be lined with almond trees. Kadour was proud that this land would one day belong to his son. "Our land!" He uttered these words not in the way of nationalists or colonists-in the name of moral principles or an ideal-but simply as a landowner who was happy to own land. Old Belhaj wanted to be buried here, he wanted his children to be buried here; he wanted this land to nurture him and to be his last resting place. But he died in 1939, while his son was training with the Spahi Regiment, proudly wearing the burnous and the sirwal. Before leaving for the front, Amine-the eldest son, and now the head of the family-rented the land to a Frenchman born in Algeria.
When Mathilde asked what he had died of, this father-in-law she'd never met, Amine touched his belly and silently nodded. Later, Mathilde found out what had happened. After returning from Verdun, Kadour Belhaj suffered with chronic stomach pains that no Moroccan healer or European doctor was able to allay. So this man, who boasted of his love of reason, his education, his talent for foreign languages, dragged himself, weighed down by shame and despair, to a basement occupied by a chouafa. The sorceress tried to convince him that he was bewitched, that some powerful enemy was responsible for his suffering. She handed him a sheet of paper folded in four, containing some saffron-yellow powder. That evening he drank the remedy, diluted in water, and he died a few hours later in terrible pain. The family didn't like to talk about it. They were ashamed of the father's naivety and of the circumstances of his death, for the venerable officer had emptied his bowels on the patio of the house, his white djellaba soaked with shit.
This day in April 1947, Amine smiled at Mathilde and told the driver to speed up. The gypsy rubbed his dirty bare feet together and whipped the mule even harder. Mathilde flinched. The man's violence toward the animal revolted her. He clicked his tongue-"Ra!"-and brought the lash down on the mule's skeletal rump. It was spring and Mathilde was two months pregnant. The fields were covered in marigolds, mallows, and starflowers. A cool breeze shook the sunflowers. On both sides of the road they saw the houses of French colonists, who had been here for twenty or thirty years and whose plantations stretched gently down to the horizon. Most of them had come from Algeria and the authorities had granted them the best and biggest plots of land. Reaching out with one hand while using the other as a visor to shield his eyes from the midday sun, Amine contemplated the vast expanse. Then he pointed to a line of cypresses that encircled the estate of Roger Mariani, who'd made his fortune as a winemaker and pig farmer. From the road they couldn't see the house, or...
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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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July 1, 2021 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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August 1, 2021 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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