Tuesday 7 March 2017

Leïla Hamoutene - Le châle de Zeineb


Leïla Hamoutene et son roman "Le châle de Zeineb", une saga familiale qui commence avec le récit de Zeineb et continue avec celui de toutes ses descendantes jusqu'à l'indépendance.

Zeineb est une petite fille en 1840. La colonisation française débute violemment et va rapidement détruire sa famille et son monde. Zeineb, sa fille, puis petite fille et toutes ses autres descendantes vont raconter comment les evènements vécus par leur ancêtre vont influer leur destin. En racontant l'histoire de ces femmes, Hamoutene raconte la transformation d'un pays en un état-nation. Un petit roman captivant.


Hats off to Leïla Hamoutene and her novel "Le châle de Zeineb". 'Zeineb's shawl' is a family saga that starts with Zeineb, a little girl whose world is going to fall apart in 1840 when the French invade her region.

Zeineb begins narrating the events that are going to reshape her life. Each of her female descendant will in turn pick up the story and show how the events lived by their ancestor has influenced their own fate. By telling the story of these women, Hamoutene follows the transformation of a country into a nation state.
#frontcover painting by Issiakhem "Fillette", 1969

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