The Art of Losing av Alice Zeniter

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<p><b>Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award</b><br><br><b>'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity.' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Zeniter’s extraordinary achievement is to transform a complicated conflict into a compelling family chronicle' <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br>Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria – but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s learned from her grandparents’ tiny flat in a crumbling French sink estate: the food cooked for her, the few precious things they brought with them when they fled.<br><br>On the past, her family is silent. Why was her grandfather Ali forced to leave? Was he a <i>harki </i>– an Algerian who