Sign-In
Cart
Trois Jours a Oran
Paperback
Series: La Bleue
ISBN13: 9782234070905
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Three Days in Oran describes the journey a young woman undertook in 2005 to bring her father home to the land of his birth, after almost forty years' absence, a land where he is now a foreigner.
She had to wait until her grandmother had died and she herself was separated from her husband before fulfilling the wish that, until then, had struck her has unjustified. She spent too long hovering between two apparently irreconcilable positions, wavering between pride in her pieds-noirs origins and shame about her colonial history. It is this painful relationship with her roots which ruled her life and dictated her choices in spite of herself.
From the apartment in Oran to the family farm in Misserghin and on to some forgotten white tombs, from the colourful streets of the dazzling seafront... over a period of three days, father and daughter weave together a conversation that is restrained yet touching and joyful, and which reconciles them with themselves. Traces of the family have not disappeared, far from it; in fact they have some generous, unexpected encounters in store.
A superb narrative about family heritage and characters searching for their origins, Three Days in Oran explores the trajectory of a man reconnecting with his past and a woman finding her freedom - a journey vibrant with the colours, smells and light of present day Algeria.
Anne Plantagenet is the author of several novels, including Le Prisonnier (2009) and Nation Pigalle (2011) published by Stock; she also writes biographies and novellas, and has translated numerous Spanish and Latin American novels. After London and Seville, she now lives in Paris.
Also from
Plantagenet, Anne
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback