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In the country of others / Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

by Slimani, Leïla, 1981-

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Penguin Books, 2021.

Women immigrants -- Fiction.

Morocco -- Fiction.

Slimani, Leïla, 1981- In the country of others ; 1.

9780143135975 (hc.)

Originally published in French as Le pays des autres by Editions Gallimard, Paris.

In English, translated from the French.

"Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules she does not understand, and with her daughter taunted at school by rich French girls for her secondhand clothes and unruly hair, Mathilde goes from being reduced to a farmer's wife to defying the country's chauvinism and repressive social codes by offering medical services to the rural population. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Amine finds himself caught in the crossfire: in solidarity with his Moroccan workers yet also a landowner, despised by the French yet married to a Frenchwoman, and proud of his wife's resolve but ashamed by her refusal to be subjugated. All of them live in the country of others--especially the women, forced to live in the land of men--and with this novel, Leila Slimani issues the first salvo in their emancipation"--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

Literary fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

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