by Kaouther Adimi · LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417977566
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«I left one night, late, while decent people were having dinner. I went down the stairs for the last time. I wasn't carrying many things. I had promised that I would be back very soon. I really meant it. I didn't know that you don't come back.» A young woman decides to leave her home in Algeria and settle in Paris in search of the freedom and new horizons that the city offers her. Five years later she is trapped between two worlds: day-to-day life in the cold capital is much harder than she thought, and although she feels nostalgic for her previous life, the continuous phone calls from her mother reminding her that her main goal should be to find a husband convince her that returning is not an alternative. When she learns that she has to travel to Algiers to attend her little sister's wedding, she cannot avoid a certain sense of failure. The author of the acclaimed Nuestras riquezas describes with freshness and sensitivity our internal contradictions, the weight of our origins and our past, as well as the unease and loneliness of believing that we do not fit in anywhere. An honest and tragicomic portrait that is also a denunciation of the social impositions that mark the lives and thoughts of millions of women.
Kaouther Adimi is a writer, graduate in modern literature and human resources management. She works today in Paris, where she has lived since 2009.
