- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 · Shortlist · for the translation by Frank Wynne
- Prix Goncourt 2017 · Shortlist
The Art of Losing
L'Art de perdre
Alice Zeniter (born 1986)
Translated by Frank Wynne
English editions
In EnglishThe Art of Losing
Picador · United States · 22 March 2022 · Paperback · 448 pages
The Art of Losing
Picador · United Kingdom · 4 February 2021 · Hardcover · 400 pages
The Art of Losing
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · March 2021 · Hardcover · 448 pages
The Art of Losing
Picador · United Kingdom · 3 March 2022 · Paperback · 480 pages
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Naïma has always treated her family's Algerian origins as background, but present-day French debates about identity keep pushing her towards them. Her Kabyle grandfather Ali, who became a harki, is dead and can no longer explain his choice; her grandmother Yema speaks a language she lacks; her father Hamid, who came to the French camps in 1962, keeps silent. The novel spans three generations.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 505 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Migration, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, Algeria
- First published
- 2017 by Flammarion
- Author's age
- 31 when first published
- ISBN
9782081395534 (original)
9781509884117 (Picador, United Kingdom)
9780374182304 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9781509884131 (Picador, United Kingdom)
9781250829269 (Picador, United States)
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