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In the Country of Others: A Novel

byLeïla Slimani

Focused on a Novel, In the Country of Others brings Leïla Slimani's novel to a complex and consequential subject. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of fiction. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

Aug 10, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780143135975