by Vassilis Alexakis · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234055032
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«Les Mots étrangers» is a novel by Vassilis Alexakis published by Stock in paperback (320 pages, in French).
The narrator, a Greek writer living between Paris and Athens, decides to learn Sango, the language spoken in the Central African Republic, as a third language. Through this learning, the novel traverses his memories, family roots, and the preparation of a trip to Africa, reflecting on identity, uprootedness, and the power of words.
The novel went on sale on September 4, 2002, and was awarded a state literature prize in the novel category in 2004.
For readers interested in French literature and stories about identity, languages, and cross-cultural encounters.
Vassilis Alexakis was a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek, his mother tongue, and French.
