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1968: The air is electric. Anything feels possible, and Mathilde is determined to celebrate it.
Watch Us Dance
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The air is electric. Anything feels possible, and Mathilde is determined to celebrate it. Doesn’t she have the right to enjoy life, after dedicating her best years to the war and then to this farm?
Looking out at her elegant garden, Mathilde reflects on all she has achieved. Now in a newly independent country intoxicated by its own sense of freedom, she yearns for a radiant future.
But her babies are now grown up, and Mathilde is about to learn that life can take wild and unexpected turns.
Travel Guide
Morocco
This is the sequel to Le pays des autres/The Country of Others and it takes a more indepth look at the Belhaj family and Morocco itself. We start in the late 1960s and go from there.
What this second novel does is to focus on the political and social changes that the country is going through. There is a lot to learn about the country and its people but it never feels overdone or two much. As well as learning about Morocco, world events play a part in the novel and this has a nice touch of centring the novel more with the wider world.
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Destination/Location: Morocco Author: Leïla Slimani Departure: 2000s
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