If you're a reading enthusiast, please join us for our Francophile Book Club! We meet online every month (= two meetings per session). The discussion is led in English though every participant is welcome to read the French version of the book. This event is open to all levels.

AFA members and non-members are welcome to join the club. Please register to receive the ZOOMLINK for the meeting.  

The book: "The Country of Others" ("Le pays des autres") by Leïla Slimani.

This award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel is about a woman in an interracial
marriage whose desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country's fight for independence.

After World War II, Mathilde, a spirited French woman, leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. She now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner as tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists. This classic war fiction depicts the struggle for identity and territory amid violence, courage and sacrifice. It's a novel about race, resilience, and women’s empowerment.

About the author:

Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris.

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