In English
Warwick Prize 2021 · Shortlist
The Art of Losing
L'Art de perdre
Alice Zeniter · 31 when first published
Novel · 400 pages · Family, Migration, Historical
Translated by Frank Wynne
AI-generated summary:Naïma, whose family comes from Algeria, sets out to learn the history her family never told her: why her grandfather Ali became a harki, and what her father lost when he came to France in 1962.
Also: Goncourt 2017 shortlist