Les exilés | Maïa Kanaan-Macaux

EAN : 9782260054931

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 192

Size : 140 x 189 mm

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Maïa Kanaan-Macaux

Release date : 03/03/2022

Taking as her subject the aid some citizens volunteer to provide young, lonely migrants, Maïa Kanaan-Macaux delivers a powerful, shattering, and politically committed novel about being lost and rebuilding yourself through the story of two people whose personal trajectories have left them devastated.
Taking as her subject the aid some citizens volunteer to provide young, lonely migrants, Maïa Kanaan-Macaux delivers a powerful, shattering, and politically committed novel about being lost and rebuilding yourself through the story of two people whose personal trajectories have left them devastated.

After a tragedy that leads her to question her life, Isabelle leaves her husband, her teaching job, and her students behind. As she wanders, lost, she meets a fifteen-year-old Guinean migrant of whom she grows fond. Staying in the same shelter with the boy, Isabelle takes pleasure in passing her... After a tragedy that leads her to question her life, Isabelle leaves her husband, her teaching job, and her students behind. As she wanders, lost, she meets a fifteen-year-old Guinean migrant of whom she grows fond. Staying in the same shelter with the boy, Isabelle takes pleasure in passing her knowledge on, and begins teaching Ibrahim the basics of French. Motivated if always wary, her student slowly comes to share his story. To escape poverty and earn money for the medications essential to his father’s survival, this farmer’s son is forced to cross first the desert and then the Mediterranean. His journey is littered with the worst experiences a teenager could dream of: the greed and violence of human traffickers, the death of his traveling companions, and finally, the bureaucratic hell of the French authorities. Even with Isabelle’s help, Ibrahim struggles to be legally recognized as an unaccompanied minor. The two make the acquaintance of Jean, a local olive grower, who immediately notices the boy’s talent for taking care of trees. Friendship, mutual respect, and solidarity will blossom among these lonely souls—a precarious peace threatened when Ibrahim turns eighteen and his status is once again thrown into question.

Alternating chapters from the voices and perspectives of Isabelle and Ibrahim, The Exiles is, first and foremost, a poignant novel about the magic of meeting new people and building yourself back up when life has wounded you. A magnificent account of the individual capacity to find meaning in life once more when all hope seems lost.

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EAN : 9782260054931

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 192

Size : 140 x 189 mm

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