Passe l'intrus

In Paris in May 1968, a young foreign student, newly arrived from Tunisia to study at the Sorbonne, wanders among the places of the revolt, looking both for a woman and for a key to the strange season he has stumbled into. Years later the boy of May has become an ageing teacher who lives alone in Tunis, writing, walking in the rain and going through old photographs. Asking himself how revolutions are born and how they die, he takes up the unfinished search, reliving in flashes the barricades, his debts to his cousin Moncef, his friends Miguel and Véra, and his love for Nadine, a leading figure of the movement.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

181 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, Tunisia, 1968

First published

2016 by Déméter

ISBN

9789973706409 (original)