Book : Art Of Losing - Zeniter, Alice

-Titulo Original : Art Of Losing

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About the Author Alice Zeniter is a French novelist, translator, screenwriter, and director. Her novel Take This Man was published in English by Europa Editions in 2011. Zeniter has won many awards in France for her work, including the Prix litteraire de la Porte Doree, the Prix Renaudot des Lyceens, and the Prix Goncourt des Lyceens, which was awarded to The Art of Losing. She lives in Brittany.Frank Wynne has translated the work of numerous French and Hispanic authors, including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas, and Virginie Despentes. His work has earned him many prizes, including the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Premio Valle Inclan, and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award with Houellebecq for The Elementary Particles. Most recently, his translation of Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s Animalia won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize. 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? Naima knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents’ tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Naima can’t understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her grandmother carried when they fled. Naima’s father claims to remember nothing; he has made himself French. Her grandfather died before he could tell her his side of the story. But now Naima will travel to Algeria to see for herself what was left behind including their secrets. The Algerian War for Independence sent Naima’s grandfather on a journey of his own, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant barely scratching out a living in the north. The long battle against colonial rule broke apart communities, opened deep rifts within families, and saw the whims of those in even temporary power instantly overturn the lives of ordinary people. Where does Naima’s family fit into this history? How do they fit into France’s future?Alice Zeniter’s The Art of Losing is a powerful, moving family novel that spans three generations across seventy years and two shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a resonant people’s history of Algeria and its diaspora. It is a story of how we carry on in the face of loss: loss of country, identity, language, connection. Most of all, it is an immersive, riveting excavation of the inescapable legacies of colonialism, immigration, family, and war. Review A Most Anticipated Book of 2021: The Millions, The New York Times GlobetrottingWinner of the Prix Goncourt des LyceensWinner of Le Mondes Literary PrizeA Sunday Times Translated Book of the Month PickMs. Zeniter’s extraordinary achievement is to transform a complicated conflict into a compelling family chronicle, rich in visual detail and lustrous in language. Her storytelling, splendidly translated by Frank Wynne, carries the reader through different generations, cities, cultures, and mindsets without breaking its spell... With The Art of Losing, Ms. Zeniter shows fiction’s power as a hedge against loss of the past: the art of regaining. Liesl Schillinger, The Wall Street Journal“If you think of historical fiction as a way of translating the past, does your perspective change when that fiction has been translated from another language? . . . This added dimension can make a book even richer, even more provocative. And none demonstrates that better than . . . The Art of Losing.” Alida Becker, The New York Times Book ReviewRemarkable... superbly handled… It speaks urgently to our times.” The Sunday TimesVisceral... An incredible [book]... that requires rapt attention. It is a novel that scales the walls of history and excavates lessons with curiosity and anger. The Observer“From Algeria t