Books. A little piece of neighborhood in the countryside with “Challah la danse”

With Challah la danse, Dalya Daoud succeeds in chronicling a housing estate populated by immigrants, which is also that of France over thirty years.

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There are only six houses there, a mini-housing below a village lost in the Lyon countryside (Rhône). This handful of prefabricated pavilions was placed there by a boss, for the workers of his textile factory, in the 1960s when paternalism was the rule.

Almost all of the houses on Chemin des Brigands are occupied by residents from the Maghreb. The two Tunisian Taïeb families, who love to hate each other…