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Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family's history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make? Naïma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Naïma can't understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her g...

A powerful and moving family story about history, immigration and identity, spanning three generations and some seventy years across the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT DES LYCÉENSWINNER OF THE PRIX LITTERAIRE DU MONDE'A family saga that begins like a fairy tale in the mountains of Kabylia - Ali, Naïma's grandfather, makes his fortune by finding an olive press in a river - and turns to tragedy: fratricidal war, transit camps in France, racism and humiliations. The novel of a French identity that is forever variable and plural.'L'Obs'Highly recommended . . . Alice Zeniter [has] a du...

A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialismNaïma's family comes from Algeria, but she knows it only from what she experiences in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the food her grandmother cooks, the precious things they carried when they fled. Naïma's father claims to remember nothing, has made himself French. But now, one of them is going back, Naïma will see fo...

Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria. Born in Normandy, now working in the art world in Paris, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to her grandparents' tiny flat in a crumbling sink-estate in France, the food her grandmother Yema cooks, the precious things she and her husband Ali brought with them when they fled in 1962, just as Algeria was about to gain its independence. Naïma's father, Hamid - only a child wh...