Lela Sebbar | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Le la Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has beenhidden for many years. Mildred Mortimer's impressive translation conveys the powerof Sebbar's words in English and allows English-speaking readers an opportunity tounderstand the complex relationship between past and present, metropole and colony, immigrant and citizen, that lies at the heart of this acclaimed novel.