The Art of Losing

A powerful and moving family story about history, immigration and identity, spanning three generations and some seventy years across the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

About the author

Alice Zeniter was born in 1986. She is the author of four novels; Sombre dimanche (Albin Michel, 2013) won the Prix du Livre Inter, the Prix des lecteurs de l’Express and the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas; Juste avant l’oubli (Flammarion, 2015) won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens. She is a playwright and theatre director.

Summary

A powerful and moving family story about history, immigration and identity, spanning three generations and some seventy years across the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Foreword

A powerful and moving family story about history, immigration and identity, spanning three generations and some seventy years across the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Additional text

A powerful family saga . . . [Zeniter] shows how history is passed down from generation to generation, in stories pockmarked by what’s left unsaid.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Zeniter, ZENITER ALICE
• Assisted by: Frank Wynne (Translation), Wynne Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2022
• EAN: 9781509884131
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-8413-1
• No. of pages: 471
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Algeria, FICTION / World Literature / France / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary