Gallimard. 2025. 432 pages.This novel concludes the author’s trilogy, Le pays des autres, based on her family history in Morocco and France since the end of the Second World War (for…

Paris. Gallimard. 2022. 368 pages. THIS NOVEL IS the second part of a trilogy, Le Pays des autres (see WLT, Autumn 2020, 95), partly based on the author’s family hi…

Paris. Gallimard. 2020. 365 pages. IN 2016 LEÏLA SLIMANI won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious annual literary prize, for her novel Chanson douce (see WL…

Paris. Gallimard. 2016. 226 pages.The novel that won the prestigious Goncourt Prize in 2016 begins on a grim note: “The baby is dead.” Most of the ensuing narrative is recounted in the form of an exte…