In So Close , the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous
recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than
thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift
through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at
home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Above all, she
must confront the depths of her mother's rejection of the country
that had rejected her despite years of devotion to the poor women
of Algiers. As she is struggling with this decision, she receives a
message from Zohra Drif, with whom she has had no contact since
their school days, which was just before Zohra joined the Algerian
FLN and become a heroine in the uprising against French rule in her
homeland. They meet in Paris for the first time in more than fifty
years and soon afterward the narrator departs for Algiers. The
latter part of the narrative brings a rush of sensations,
impressions, memories, and new encounters as the narrator revisits
sites from her past in Algiers and especially in Oran, the city of
her birth, the city of the family's happiness before her father's
death when she was a young girl. The quest to find his grave again
in the overgrown Jewish cemetery of Algiers leads to a startlingly
moving scene that closes the voyage and the book.
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