Le Corps de ma mère

When revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the narrator finally decides to write about her mother, Yamna. She goes back to the spring of 2007, when she kept watch at the bedside of her ailing mother, a woman wary of confidences and sparing with tenderness, and resolved to solve the riddle she had always been. What follows is a kind of treasure hunt through family memory, in which the children learn that Yamna's life was far from what they had imagined. Through her, the book portrays the lives of Bedouin women in Tunisia, tells how one of them freed herself from an ancestral tradition that weighed heavily on women, and reaches forward to the upheavals of the Jasmine Revolution.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

231 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia

First published

2016 by Éditions Joëlle Losfeld

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9782072669774 (original)