The first novel available to English readers by Fawzia Zouari, one
of the most important North African authors writing today, begins
with an emergency crew's arrival at a Parisian apartment. Two
emaciated young women, sisters, are brought out on stretchers. To
the crowd of onlookers the women's condition is mystifying; for the
two sisters, this is the inescapable end to a tragic series of
events. Inspired by an actual news story from the French headlines,
I Die by This Country introduces us to Nacera and Amira. Casting
her mind back in the midst of the opening pages' upheaval, Nacera
pieces together her fragmentary knowledge of her parents' lives in
rural French Algeria and their immigration to Paris in the years
following Algeria's war for independence. Her memories of how both
she and Amira struggled to find their place as children of
immigrants reveals the enormous stress of social exclusion and
identity conflicts facing immigrant youth. Nacera and her family
yearn for acceptance, but the reader sees this dream becoming
increasingly unattainable. Zouari's frank prose and penetrating
storytelling deftly relates the multigenerational experience of
Franco-Algerian immigration during the last quarter of the
twentieth century. As France continues, like so many western
countries, to struggle with questions regarding national identity,
immigration, and its colonial past, the experiences depicted in
this novel resonate more than ever.
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