La maison sur la colline

The diary opens in a house on a hill. Its writer, a descendant of Larbi Zarrouk, was separated from his Tunisian family in early childhood by the colonial power and made to live as a European. He tells in detail the twists of this divided life, shared by a generation of young Tunisians caught between two worlds, and of a man who stayed Tunisian at heart.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

238 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia, 20th century

First published

2005 by Nirvana

ISBN

9789973855053 (original)