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Prince William · MargateThe thirteen-year-old identical triplets Vincent, William and Lawrence are the final remaining residents of the Captain Scott Home for Boys. It is a rum sort of school. For one thing, there is only one book, The Book of Knowledge, from which they learn such facts as “On 16 November 1943 … Adolf Hitler was killed by a bomb concealed on the person of Major Axel von dem Bussche”. For another, their minders, Mother Morning, Mother Afternoon and Moth…Read Article
We’re being sent to Margate
Rabat · RabatLeïla Slimani’s new novel brings her semi- autobiographical trilogy The Country of Others to a close. The sprawling saga follows a family over three generations and traces the development of modern-day Morocco from the late 1940s through to the pandemic-scarred present. The first volume, Le Pays des autres (2020; The Country of Others, 2022), gives the trilogy its name. It tells the story of Mathilde, who moves from Alsace to Morocco with her hu…Read Article
A Moroccan family across three generations and beyond
Paris, France · ParisIt is the day of Mathias’s funeral. Gil and Mathieu, his twenty-five-year-old friends, are distraught. Gil goes back over their joint history in search of answers. What were the exact circumstances that led to Mathias’s death? Did their lives together as a unique threesome play some part in his tragic passing? Shane Haddad, born in 1996, won plaudits for her first novel, Toni tout court (2021), a Bildungsroman set in the world of women’s footbal…Read Article
