by Fouad Laroui · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290322765
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«De quel amour blessé» is the novel by Fouad Laroui, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (121 pages, in French).
Jamal, of Maghrebi origin, and Judith, who is Jewish, love each other, but their surroundings oppose them: two feuding families, an extremist cousin, and old grudges. A narrator, drawn into this Parisian version of Romeo and Juliet, ends up entangled in betrayals, superstitions, and ancestral hatreds. The story of an immigrant father and his son also emerges.
The novel originally appeared at Julliard in 1998; this J'ai Lu edition is from 2003 and keeps the text in French.
For readers who want a short novel about love between cultures and family opposition.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
