{"product_id":"art-of-losing-1","title":"Art of Losing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eA powerful and moving family story about history, immigration and identity, spanning three generations and some seventy years across the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A deeply human text about the ghosts of identity and decolonization.' \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaïma has always known that her family came from Algeria – but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s learned from her grandparents’ tiny flat in a crumbling French sink estate: the food cooked for her, the few precious things they brought with them when they fled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the past, her family is silent. Why was her grandfather Ali forced to leave? Was he a \u003ci\u003eharki \u003c\/i\u003e– an Algerian who worked for and supported the French during the Algerian War of Independence? Once a wealthy landowner, how did he become an immigrant scratching a living in France?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Naïma’s father, Hamid, says he remembers nothing. A child when the family left, in France he re-made himself: education was his ticket out of the family home, the key to acceptance into French society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But now, for the first time since they left, one of Ali’s family is going back. Naïma will see Algeria for herself, will ask the questions about her family’s history that, till now, have had no answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Spanning three generations across seventy years, Alice Zeniter’s \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Losing\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how people carry on in the face of loss: the loss of a country, an identity, a way to speak to your children. It’s a story of colonization and immigration, and how in some ways, we are a product of the things we’ve left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the French by Frank Wynne\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is supported by the Institut français (Royaume-Uni) as part of the Burgess programme.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 714g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 163 x 242 x 44 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781509884117\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice Zeniter","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44099435069690,"sku":"9781509884117","price":12.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1d596fcfc08aeec9356d14687e2bddd1_90a8ac8a-1d77-4813-94aa-092190442cf3.jpg?v=1621142736","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/art-of-losing-1","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}