I loved watching her interact with a broad cast. Mrs Burland, a counsellor who clearly cares but doesn’t quite understand. Hamoudi, her closest friend, Their lives are moving in different directions, but the bond between them remains. Shopkeepers, neighbours, aunties …

The Arab immigrant community Doria lives in is rich with all the good and bad aspects of their culture: parties, foods, henna, yes, but also heavy restrictions on women and girls, and A tale for anyone who has ever lived outside looking in, especially from that alien country called adolescence. A funny, heartfelt story from a wise guy who happens to be a girl. If you've ever fallen in love, if you've ever had your heart broken, this story is your story." -- Sandra Cisneros, author of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET In retrospect, I realised how difficult and brutal the media coverage was. I was the first of my kind and was treated like a court jester, a freak' When Zidane plays football, he draws on immense technical skills, but the 10-year-olds watching him think it looks easy and want to become footballers themselves. When I write, people mustn’t be able to see the difficulty of what I do. The effort mustn’t be apparent in the book. It's easy to imagine what a challenge the novel presented for Kover. She even remarked that it was " certainly the most slang-heavy novel I've translated. I translated the novel Life, Only Better by Anna Gavalda and that had quite a lot of slang in it, but this was on a different level and it was another type of slang entirely".

Après un début qui nous interpelle et qui déclenche la révolte, le lecteur lit avec soulagement la suite de l'histoire qui redonne l'espoir et donne l'envie de le faire lire autour de soi. Your novel is very frank about family tensions and the difficulties the younger generation has in finding love. Given the hostile stereotypes about Algerians in France, did you ever feel a desire to present your characters in a more obviously “positive” light? Her father has returned to his Moroccan birthplace to find a new wife who will provide him with the son he so badly wants. And so mother and daughter are left to subsist on the meagre wages that a woman who doesn’t speak the language can earn as an office cleaner. Sous des dehors arrogants, Dora cache un coeur remplie de tendresse et d'amour. le personnage est aussi un mélange de candeur et de maturité, elle n'est pas issue d'un milieu aisée, la vie ne l'a pas épargnée. Why would he give a shit about voting?’ The guy already has to fight daily just to survive, so you can forget about his duties as a citizen .. If his situation improved a little, maybe he would want to get out and vote.

But for the moment he says he is focusing on his job at Parisian publishing house Latte s, where has been appointed head of a literary imprint . Despite her early success, Guène’s path hasn't been easy. Like many French-born children of immigrants from former French colonies, Guène always felt she was viewed as a second-class citizen. J'avais quelques doutes pendant ma lecture et je suis allé voir l'interview vidéo de Faïza Guène parlant de son livre et regrettant que l'on classe ses écrits comme une biographie plutôt que comme un roman : « Je l'ai écrit, mais c'est pas moi ! ».We tell ourselves; they went through all that, and we are still treated the same way. The question now is how to deal with the anger' Extrait : « Je suis allée dans la cuisine pour nettoyer la gazinière parce que c'état dégueu, avant que l'assistante sociale fasse son inspection ».

Discretion also touches on the events of 17 October 1961, when the Parisian police killed dozens of pro-independence Algerian demonstrators. How did you come to make a film about the massacre, even before you wrote your first novel? When France wins the final against Croatia, the camera pans across a multi-ethnic crowd, all cheering for their country. Ly won the 2019 Cannes Festival jury prize for Les Miserables and the film went on to be nominated for best international feature film.Moving and irreverent, sad and funny, full of rage and intelligence. [Guène's] characters are unforgettable, her voice fresh, and her book a delight." -- Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Guène’s slang expressions, paired with the use of the present tense, occasionally make “Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow” read more like a series of adolescent diary entries than a novel. Yet her dry wit elevates the book above juvenilia. “He’s always high and I think maybe that’s why I like him,” Doria says of a much-older, Rimbaud-spouting drug dealer on whom she harbors a secret crush. A family friend’s husband who spends half the year in Algeria with his second wife and the other half in France with his first, “knew how to hit the right balance, rein himself in. He does it part-time.” Riffing on the Arabic phrase “inshallah,” or “God willing,” Doria remarks, “But, thing is, you can’t ever know if God’s willing or not.” There are even hints of poetry. “Outside, it was gray like the color of our building’s concrete and it was drizzling in very fine drops, as if God were spitting on all of us,” Guène writes.Arts, Humanities and Cultures • AQA A-level History: Britain 1851-1964: Challenge and Transformation