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The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume. Written between 1978 and 2006, they trace a journey that began in Aflou, Algeria, where her father ran a schoolhouse, and continued to France, where Sebbar traveled, alone, as a graduate student before eventually realizing her powerful creative vision. The pieces collected in this book capture an array of experiences, sensations, and sentiments surrounding the French colonial presence in Algeria and offer an intimate and prismatic reflection on Sebbar’s bicultural upbringing as the child of an Algerian father and French mother. Sebbar paints an unflinching portrait of her original disconnection from her father’s Arabic language and culture, depicting her struggle to revive a cultural heritage that her family had deliberately obscured and to convey the vibrant yet muted Arabic of her father and of Algeria. Looking back from numerous vantage points throughout her life, she presents the complicated and divisive dynamics of being raised "between two shores"--the colonized and the colonizer.CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Alger, aujourdhui. Que sait la jeune fille au balcon ? Que tout est interdit, dangereux, suspect Elle rve damour, mais ne quittera pas son refuge. Dehors, cest lheure de tous les dangers, imaginaires ou r�els. En six nouvelles, Lela Sebbar raconte les liens passionnels entre lAlg�rie et la France, les conflits didentit�, les affrontements entre tradition et modernit�. Pourquoi une musulmane ne serait-elle pas agr�able voir et joyeuse ? N�e en Alg�rie, Lela Sebbar vit en France. Journaliste, elle est aussi lauteur de nombreux romans et recueils de nouvelles dont Lettres parisiennes avec Nancy Huston. Roman ou nouvelles, Lela Sebbar entrane le lecteur sur le terrain min� de la m�moire interdite. Le Monde

Leïla Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has been hidden for many years. Toward the end of the Algerian war, the FLN, an Algerian nationalist party, organized a demonstration in Paris to oppose a curfew imposed upon Algerians in France. About 30,000 Algerians gathered peacefully, but the protest was brutally suppressed by the Paris police. Between 50 and 200 Algerians were killed and their bodies were thrown into the Seine. This incident provides the background for a more intimate look into the history of violence between France and Algeria. Following three young protagonists―one French, one Algerian, and one French national of Algerian descent―Sebbar takes readers on a journey of discovery and comprehension. Mildred Mortimer's impressive translation conveys the power of Sebbar's words in English and allows English-speaking readers an opportunity to understand the complex relationship between past and present, metropole and colony, immigrant and citizen, that lies at the heart of this acclaimed novel.