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In the Country of Others: A Novel Audiobook
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The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that “lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating experience of war” (The New York Times Book Review) After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, 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. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Mathilde’s fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country’s fight for independence in this lush and transporting novel about race, resilience, and women’s empowerment.
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“Narrator Lara Sawalha transports listeners to post-WWII Morocco in celebrated Franco–Moroccan writer Leila Slimani’s mesmerizing historical novel.. Sawalha has a pleasing voice, clear and softly accented, but it’s her unhurried pacing, splendid evocation of settings and atmosphere, and exquisite phrasing that draw listeners into this story.”
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“Nuanced and elegantly written.”
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“Dynamic female characters dominate the book…Her] prose…is stunning.”
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“Lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating experience of war and its consequent trauma.”
— New York Times Book Review
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A Parade Magazine Pick of Best Books of Summer
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A Vogue Pick of Summer Books
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An Entertainment Weekly “Must Read”
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A Town & Country Magazine Pick of Summer
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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About Leila Slimani
Leila Slimani is the author of The Perfect Nanny, winner of the Goncourt Prize and one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, and of Adèle, for which she won the La Mamounia Prize. 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 and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France's annual list of the Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
About Lara Sawalha
Lara Sawalha is an Actor, Model and Film & Stage Crew member based in London, United Kingdom. She graduated from Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in 2006 with a BA in Acting and now works between Jordan and London doing theater, film, TV, radio, and audiobook narration.