Les Lendemains d'hier

Moving back and forth between past and present, a narrator weaves the history of Tunisia since the protectorate into his own story and his father's. The father, a bright child of the medina, becomes a lawyer as he dreamed, with the help of his schoolteacher, in a colonial world where settlers and natives never mix and souk craftsmen work beside Maltese coachmen. Father and son go through the two world wars, the resident-general's iron rule and independence together. Yet the son's life is also a long submission to an overbearing father and a slow, difficult emancipation from him, in a society where tenderness between them cannot be spoken.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

266 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia

First published

2017 by Elyzad

Author's age

78 when first published

ISBN

9789973580955 (original)