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Synopsis
Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her 60-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. So she decides to become Fadila's French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging than she thought. Yet during these lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Edith and Fadila, an immigrant from Morocco, begin to understand one another as never before and from this understanding blossoms a surprising friendship. Edith will enter contact with a way of life that is unforgiving at times, but joyful and dignified.
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Praise for Bitter Almonds
"Wry, sly, and coyly seditious, Cosse's piquant satire is a subtly wrought manifesto against blatant consumer manipulation and media malfeasance." —Carol Haggas, Booklist
"Cosse poignantly depicts characters."
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Laurence Cosse's previous novels
"[A Novel Bookstore] makes a good argument for literature as a sensual pleasure surpassing even sex and fine wine."
—The Washington Post
"Marvelous and stimulating."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"A deeply satisfying manifesto of book love and a sharp indictment of those who would use such love for their own evil purposes."
—The Huffington Post
"The psychological issues Cossé raises [in An Accident in August] are telling and true."
—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Laurence Cossé worked as a journalist before devoting herself entirely to fiction. She is the author of A Novel Bookstore. She lives in France.
Alison Anderson's translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of the Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.
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- PublisherEuropa Editions
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1609450892
- ISBN 13 9781609450892
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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