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THE CHRONICLE OF ÉTIENNE DE MONTETY – From “The Land of Others”, Leïla Slimani does not forget any of the protagonists of the previous volumes. His story turns his back on autofiction, his style is sober, his story lively. The result is a saga that makes one person happy: the reader.

In The ThibaultsMartin du took the reader into a French family and explored through them the beginning of the 20th centurye century, its events and its evolution. The Thibaults of Leïla Slimani are called the Belhajs and for them, with them, she undertook what Martin du Gard had called “ a long-term novel ». The Land of Others ends with this third volume:I will take away the fire.

To each volume a generation. Mathilde the Alsatian and Amine the Moroccan soldier of the liberation troops have aged. Morocco has changed. Their daughter, Aicha is a gynecologist, she married a brilliant subject with a bright future, Mehdi Daoud. Their parent's life as a farmer is fading away. Mia their daughter is the narrator of this story. She and her sister Inès live between Rabat and , not very different from the students of their generation. They were the ones who vowed to bring fire wherever they went. They don't deprive themselves of it. Their…

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