Leïla Slimani
Books by Leïla Slimani
Watch Us Dance
by Leïla Slimani
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.
The Country of Others
by Leïla Slimani
The Country of Others is the first book in Moroccan-French author Leïla Slimani's trilogy of novels based partly on her own family's story, now translated into English. It opens in 1945 as a French woman living in Alsace falls in love with a Moroccan serving in the French army. The couple move to Morocco, where they make their lives on a farm. The story takes us through Morocco's independence struggle from France to 1956, when the French protectorate of Morocco came to an end.
