دفاتر الجيلاني ولد حمد

The novel presents itself as an edited manuscript: notebooks written three decades earlier by Jilani wild Hamad, a Tunisian immigrant who arrived in Paris at the start of the 1980s, lived there a few years, and was tried and jailed in unclear circumstances. From his cell in Loos he insists that nothing he writes is invented. His notebooks move between two times: the life of his clan in Ain Hamad, a village in central Tunisia, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth, with its marriages, funerals and deals among kin, and his own struggle in the immigrant districts of Paris from the spring of 1983, where he works in a carpentry shop and fights as a secret boxer.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Migration, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia, France, early 19th to late 20th century

First published

2023 by Atras