by Loic Barriere · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020308908
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«Le Voyage Clandestin» is the novel by Loïc Barrière, published in 1998 by Seuil in paperback (183 pages, in French).
Adel, a twenty-year-old Algerian, leaves Algiers to avoid becoming a stevedore like his father and to escape poverty. After a risky journey, his life in Paris is a succession of precarious jobs and flights: he is a «clandestine», pursued and guilt-ridden. A police stop sends him to prison, where he shares the desperation of others who tried to flee destitution.
For readers interested in immigration, social exclusion and contemporary French urban realism.
