Watch Us Dance

Watch Us Dance is the second novel in Moroccan-French novelist Leïla Slimani’s multigenerational family trilogy. The novel opens in 1968 and follows the daughter, Aïcha, as she heads home to Morocco after studying in France. The first book in the trilogy is The Country of Others.

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Watch Us Dance

by Leïla Slimani

Other books by Leïla Slimani

The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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The Country of Others
by Leïla Slimani

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson