Faiza Güene

Faiza Guenes first novel Just Like Tomorrow (Kiffe kiffe demain), published in 2004 when the author was just nineteen, became an instant bestseller and has been adopted as a set text in French schools. Her second novel, Dreams from the Endz (Du reve pour les oufs) is somewhat bleaker in tone, narrated by a young woman whose mother was killed 13 years ago in a village massacre in Algeria, and whose father has suffered brain damage in an industrial accident. Guene is too important a writer to dismiss because she conveys a generally unsettling message, wrote Nicholas Tucker in the Independent. As before, she deserves to be heard.

Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, grateful to the country that hosts her and her adored family. The closest she gets to drama is scooping revolutionary bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets. But Yaminas children feel differently about life in Paris. They dont always fit in, and it hurts. Omar wonders whether its too late to change course as he watches the world pass him by from the drivers seat of his Uber. His sisters are tired of having to prove themselves and their allegiance to a place that is at once home, and not. When the Talebs go away together on holiday - not to the motherland, but to a villa-with-pool rental near the Atlantic coast - they come to realise just how strongly family defines our sense of belonging. Moving between Algeria and Paris, Discretion touchingly evokes the realities of a first- and second-generation family as they carve out a future for themselves in France, finding one another as they go along.

Le monde a changé à partir du forfait Millénium. Désormais, on se parlerait sans limites. On pourrait se dire autre chose que l’essentiel. La jeunesse devenait Millénium, le monde, sous nos yeux, éta

Bautizada en los medios franceses como la «Françoise Sagan de los suburbios», Faïza Guène saltó a la fama en otoño de 2004 con esta primera novela sobre la vida en los barrios periféricos de París. C

Primera novel·la de l’autora i autèntic fenomen social a França traduïda a més de vint llengües (precisament, l'editorial Salamandra publica al maig l'edició castellana, amb el títol Mañana será otro

Después de sus dos novelas de gran éxito, Mañana será otro día y Sueños para marginados, Faïza Guène da un paso más en su carrera de narradora con El caso del bar Balto. En una población de mala muer

Ahlème a vingt-quatre ans, toutes sortes de problèmes. Mais, de sa cité d''Ivry à son Algérie natale en passant par les cafés parisiens, elle ne peut s''empêcher de promener un regard amusé sur ceux

La relecture du passé avec les yeux du présent n’est pas une mince affaire. Ça me rappelle ma première paire de lunettes. Si personne ne s’était aperçu que j’étais myope, j’aurais continué à tr

Men Dont Cry invites us into the home of Mourad Chennoun in Nice, where his father spends his days fixing things in the backyard, his mother bemoans the loss of her natal village in Algeria, and the name Dounia is taboo.When his father has a stroke, Mourad is forced to rise above his fear of becoming an overweight bachelor, tied down to home by his mothers cooking, and take steps to bridge the gulf between his family and estranged sister Dounia.This quest takes him to the Paris suburbs where he starts his teaching career, falls into the world of undocumented Algerian toyboys and discovers that Dounia has become a staunch feminist, aspiring politician and fierce assimilationist. Can Mourad adapt to his new, fast-paced Parisian life and uphold his familys values?A poignant coming-of-age story from the widely-acclaimed author of Just Like Tomorrow.

Yamina est née dans un cri. A Msirda, en Algérie colonisée. A peine adolescente, elle a brandi le drapeau de la liberté. Quarante ans plus tard, à Aubervilliers, elle vit dans la discrétion. Pour cet

" Ses enfants, eux, ils savent qui elle est, et ils exigent que le monde entier le sache aussi. " Yamina est née dans un cri. A Msirda, en Algérie colonisée. A peine adolescente, elle a brandi le drapeau de la Liberte. Quarante ans plus tard, a Aubervilliers, elle vit dans la discretion. Pour cette mere, n'est-ce pas une autre façon de resister ? Mais la colere, meme reprimee, se transmet l'air de rien.

Doria a quinze ans, un sens aigu de la vanne, une connaissance encyclopédique de la télé, et des rêves qui la réveillent. Elle vit seule avec sa mère dans une cité de Livry-Gargan, depuis que son pèr