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Watch us dance / Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

by Slimani, Leïla, 1981-

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Slimani, Leïla, 1981- -- Family -- Fiction.

Women immigrants -- Fiction.

Siblings -- Fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Fiction.

Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.

Morocco -- History -- 1956- -- Fiction.

Slimani, Leïla, 1981- In the country of others ; 2.

9780593493304 (hc.)

xiii, 322 p. ; 22 cm.

"Originally published in French as Regardez-nous danser by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2022."--T.p. verso.

"Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed and studious, dreams of leaving Morocco to study medicine in her mother's homeland. Her younger brother, Selim, the family's errant misfit, will forge a path of rebellion among the European hippies descending en masse to practice drugs and free love. Children of the revolution, now coming of age in the violent, nihilistic "years of lead," they seem destined to echo their homeland's fate: teetering between liberation and corruption, idealism and compromise. Enduring racism and abandonment, and experiencing the thrills and terrors of freedom and the iron thralls of desire, they navigate a path toward themselves: who they are, and who they dream of becoming. In her latest international bestseller, Leila Slimani draws on her family’s inspiring story to deliver a tense, provocative, page-turning novel about one family’s, and one country’s, coming of age in the face of the seductions of power and privilege."--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Literary fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

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