At the beginning of the confinement I started a booked called La vie devant soi, written by Romain Gary. I have now finished it, and that will be the subject of this article. The story is very earnest it deals with human relationship. It’s the story of a young boy (Mohammed) who’s mum was a hustler, she let him with an ex hustler whom brought him up. Throughout the story we see the boy’s relationship with society, he doesn’t go to school and live’s with the lady whom is bringing up other hustlers children. He spends most of his time out, as the lady is getting old and loosing her mine. He uses a very rough language, and uses familiar words, that makes the story look more real, I really felt him and got attached as I was reading. He is conscious the lady is going to die, he sees her deteriorating, she starts having hallucination about the times when she was still young and hustling in the street. She is also traumatized because she was deported by the nazis, she survived the holocaust before coming to France. It is a book I would recommend, because the young boy is searching for his roots, who he is, why his parents abandonned him.
Now that I’ve finished that book, I’m going to read Les Gones de Chaaba of Azouz Begag, it seems to be a great story too. To make time pass quickly I also make research through the internet and in books to enrich my culture (I don’t only watch movies lol).
See you guys next week, hoping the confinement will be over for real.
Take care of yourselves and your families.
Ms. Hubbard
Sounds interesting I might check it out. I’ve only read La Promesse de l’aube.