The Art of Losing
by Alice Zeniter
(Pan MacMillan, ISBN 9781509884117)
French-Algerian Alice Zeniter’s three-generation saga stretches from rural Algeria through the and of provincial France to present-day Paris. The (an Algerian who sided with the French during the War of Independence, considered a traitor by his own community), his studious son Hamid who as a child accompanies Ali to France, and Hamid’s high-achieving journalist daughter Naïma.
