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EAN : 9782260054399

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Pages : 180

Size : 1 x 205 mm

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Before She Slips Away

Maia Kanaan-Macaux

Release date : 05/03/2020

~~Through the emotional story of a childhood marked by the loss of her father, then her brother, Maïa Kanaan-Macaux seeks to fight isolationism and hate with her hope in a world where we can learn to live together again.

~~When she learns of her mother’s gradual and unstoppable memory loss, the narrator retraces her family history and the tragic events that cast a shadow over her childhood. The daughter of an Egyptian diplomat father and a French mother, Maïa and her older brother, Jean-Selim, enjoy a cosmopolitan, multicultural childhood... ~~When she learns of her mother’s gradual and unstoppable memory loss, the narrator retraces her family history and the tragic events that cast a shadow over her childhood. The daughter of an Egyptian diplomat father and a French mother, Maïa and her older brother, Jean-Selim, enjoy a cosmopolitan, multicultural childhood filled with travel, but also the values passed down by their parents, an activist couple always on the side of the world’s least fortunate. Then, when they are just thirteen and fifteen years old, Maïa and her brother learn of their father’s brutal death in China under mysterious circumstances. No autopsy was performed. The children are kept away from the funeral services organized in Egypt. Never having seen the coffin or the memorial services, they are never able to properly grieve. So the two teens make up a story that brings them together: their spy father secretly escaped under a new identity. Pushed by a survival instinct verging on denial, their mother makes a new life for herself in Rome, leaving her two children to fend for themselves. Right up to adulthood, Maïa and her brother learn to look out for each other. They become inseparable, with a love so close it is almost stifling. Then Jean-Selim takes up a humanitarian career that leads him to the most dangerous war zones, from Somalia to Yugoslavia, then finally to Iraq, where, in 2003, at the age of 33, he dies in an attack against the UN. Written with short, impressionistic glimpses that are sensitive without being over sentimental, this poignant story seeks to salvage the memories of a family torn apart by the world’s violence.

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EAN : 9782260054399

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Pages : 180

Size : 1 x 205 mm

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Maia Kanaan-Macaux

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