Tomboy
Publisher
:
Stock
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782234052758
Description
Garçon manqué is the story of a little girl’s attempt to define herself in a world that doesn’t seem to welcome her. How to live in Algeria when you’ve been brought up in a French culture, speaking French, with a French mother? How to live in France with an Algerian father, when you have spent your childhood in Algeria? Feeling like a girl with a boy’s mind, she creates an imaginary world where she replaces her father in his role of family protector and realizes her dreams through Amine, her best friend. Nina Bouraoui offers the reader a beautiful story about national and sexual identity. With a prose modeling the rhythm of the seasons and the sea, Garçon manqué enters the innermost feelings and difficulties experienced with mixed identity.
Author
Nina Bouraoui : Nina Bouraoui was born in 1967 in Rennes, France. Her family then moved to Algiers, where she lived until the age of fourteen, when they returned to France. At the age of 23 she published her first novel, La voyeuse interdite(Éditions Gallimard, 1991), which sold a record 140,000 copies and won her the prestigious prix du Livre Inter 1991. It was published here as Forbidden Vision (Station Hill Press, 1998). Following this success came others: Le jour du séisme (Éditions Stock, 1999), Garçon manqué (Éditions Stock, 2000), to be published next year by University of Nebraska Press, La vie heureuse (Éditions Stock, 2002) and Poupée Bella (Éditions Stock, 2004).
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