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Ahleme's father is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her brother has been permanently excluded from school, while she is left to deal with the guilt trips from their family back in Algeria. But when she returns home - after a ten-year absence - she brokers a kind of truce, with her homeland and the need to forge a future.
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"Gučne is too important a writer to dismiss because she conveys a generally unsettling message... she deserves to be heard" (Independent)
"Super-young, super-cool and fast becoming known as one of the hottest literary talents of multicultural Europe, Gučne takes us on a tour of the tough suburbs of Paris and Algeria, where having the wrong-colour passport sentences you to a half-life. Our heroine is an unforgettable narrator...it's a funny, intimate and timely book by one of the stars of tomorrow" (Sunday Telegraph)
"It's not an exaggeration to suggest that Gučne is diong for the people, especially the youth, of the banlieu what James Kelman and Agnes Owens have done for the deprived of Glasgow's housing schemes; that is, give a voice to those who have been excluded from literature...Gučne is very evidently a natural novelist, a young writer of real talent" (Scotsman)
"Alhčme has a wit, wisdom and charisma that puts the reader firmly on her side as she does her best to find the small scraps of hope she needs to keep her going in tough situations ... Alhčme's story gives a voice to people who are more frequently merely voiceless statistics" (Metro)
"Gučne interweaves political commentary skilfully with daily routine through the voice of Ahleme... Gučne does not shy away from discussing difficult issues... This is a novel well worth reading" (Socialist Review)
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"Super-young, super-cool and fast becoming known as one of the hottest literary talents of multicultural Europe, Gučne takes us on a tour of the tough suburbs of Paris and Algeria, where having the wrong-colour passport sentences you to a half-life. Our heroine is an unforgettable narrator...it's a funny, intimate and timely book by one of the stars of tomorrow" (Sunday Telegraph)
"It's not an exaggeration to suggest that Gučne is diong for the people, especially the youth, of the banlieu what James Kelman and Agnes Owens have done for the deprived of Glasgow's housing schemes; that is, give a voice to those who have been excluded from literature...Gučne is very evidently a natural novelist, a young writer of real talent" (Scotsman)
"Alhčme has a wit, wisdom and charisma that puts the reader firmly on her side as she does her best to find the small scraps of hope she needs to keep her going in tough situations ... Alhčme's story gives a voice to people who are more frequently merely voiceless statistics" (Metro)
"Gučne interweaves political commentary skilfully with daily routine through the voice of Ahleme... Gučne does not shy away from discussing difficult issues... This is a novel well worth reading" (Socialist Review)
'A funny, intimate and timely book by one of the stars of tomorrow' - Sunday Telegraph
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099512920
- ISBN 13 9780099512929
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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