Lit in Translation

This Country of Mine

Ce pays qui est le mien

Didier Leclair (born 1967)

Translated by Elaine Kennedy

English editions

In English

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Apollinaire Mavoungou, an African doctor naturalized as a Canadian, is going through an identity crisis that echoes in every area of his life in Toronto. Searching for a self he feels slipping away in the city, he tries to recover what matters in his life: he once packed up and left without ever reaching another shore. Foreign diplomas that count for nothing, intolerance and hypocrisy, the difficulties of fitting in, poverty, fading memories and others that catch up with him are all reefs he must steer around to reach the promised land.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
242 pages in the original
Genres
Migration (assigned by AI)
Set in
Canada
First published
2003 by Éditions du Vermillon
Author's age
36 when first published
ISBN

9781894547741 (original)

9781928049524 (Deux Voiliers Publishing, Canada)