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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