I'll take the fire
Mia Belhaj yearns to be free. A child of Morocco in the politically and socially turbulent 1980s, she flees her family and her homeland to seek her own place in the world. Years later, she finds it as a famous author, only for a bout with a virus to jeopardize her memory and the novel she wants to w...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York, NY :
Penguin Books,
2026.
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| Series: | Slimani, Leïla, 1981- Pays des autres (Series).
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| Summary: | Mia Belhaj yearns to be free. A child of Morocco in the politically and socially turbulent 1980s, she flees her family and her homeland to seek her own place in the world. Years later, she finds it as a famous author, only for a bout with a virus to jeopardize her memory and the novel she wants to write about her past. When she's advised to retrace her history to reclaim her present, Mia journeys around the world in search of herself, from Casablanca to Paris to New York, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, and finally back to her grandparents' farm in Morocco, where her story first began. |
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| Physical Description: | 354 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780143139157 0143139150 |
| Author Notes: | Sam Taylor is the award-winning translator of more than sixty books from French, including all of Leila Slimani's fiction. |
