Lit in Translation

El lunes nos querrán

“On Monday They'll Love Us” (title translated by AI)

Najat El Hachmi (born 1979)

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The narrator is seventeen and wants to be free to work out what happiness means for her, but home is a confined world, and leaving it will cost a great deal. Things change when she befriends a girl from the same background whose parents live their culture loosely, and who already has the life she wants. Watching her friend meet the first tests of a woman's life with confidence, she starts to follow, facing the limits set by her sex, her class and where her family comes from.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
299 pages in the original
Genres
Coming of age, Migration (assigned by AI)
First published
2021 by Ediciones Destino
Author's age
42 when first published
ISBN

9788423358779 (original)