The last life
by Claire Messud · 1999
Popularity 3
A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting he is no longer in the colonies goes to jail for shooting at rowdy teenagers by a pool.
French AmericansFictionFiction, historicalFrance, fictionAlgeria, fictionFiction, sagasFiction, historical, general