Some Dream For Fools

Ahlème, a young woman living on the outskirts of Paris, is trying to make a life out of the dreams she brought with her from Algeria and the reality she faces every day. Her father lost his job after an accident at his construction site. Her mother was lost to a massacre in Algeria. And her brother, Foued, boils with adolescent energy and teeters dangerously close to choosing a life of crime. As she wanders the streets of Paris looking for work, Ahlème negotiates the disparities between her dreams and her life, her youth and her responsibilities, the expectations of those back home and the limitations of life in France. With the same laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp humor that made Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow an international hit, Some Dream for Fools shows Faïza Guène's evolution as a novelist and reminds us of her extraordinary talent as she explores what happens to people when a lid is put on their dreams.

Some Dream for Fools

Literature & Fiction

Guène, Faïza

World Literature

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Ahlème, a young woman living on the outskirts of Paris, is trying to make a life out of the dreams she brought with her from Algeria and the reality she faces every day. Her father lost his job after an accident at his construction site. Her mother was lost to a massacre in Algeria. And her brother, Foued, boils with adolescent energy and teeters dangerously close to choosing a life of crime. As she wanders the streets of Paris looking for work, Ahlème negotiates the disparities between her dreams and her life, her youth and her responsibilities, the expectations of those back home and the limitations of life in France. With the same laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp humor that made Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow an international hit, Some Dream for Fools shows Faïza Guène’s evolution as a novelist and reminds us of her extraordinary talent as she explores what happens to people when a lid is put on their dreams.

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

Review\n‘Faiza Guene is an important voice in French literature, rebelliously dissecting ideas of home, identity and belonging with a universally accessible intimacy and power.’ Diana Evans\n‘Wonderful. A vivid, soulful novel. Guène’s Paris is a place of grifting and grafting where young rebels rub up against calcified traditions. This is a writer at the height of her powers, addressing issues of migration and belonging with defiance, zest and humour.’ 
Bidisha\n‘One of the hottest literary talents of multicultural Europe.’\nSunday Telegraph\nDeftly moving between Algeria and Paris, bestselling novelist Faïza Guène's Discretion compellingly evokes the realities of a first- and second-generation family as they carve out a future for themselves in France, finding one another as they go along. 
Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, grateful to the country that hosts her and her adored family. The closest she gets to drama is scooping ‘revolutionary’ bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets. 
But Yamina’s children feel differently. They don’t always fit in in Paris, and it hurts. Omar wonders whether it’s too late to change course as he watches the world pass him by from the driver’s seat of his Uber. His sisters are tired of having to prove themselves, and their allegiance, to a place that is at once home, and not. When the whole family goes away on holiday – not to the motherland, but to a villa-with-pool rental near the Atlantic coast – the Talebs come to realise just how family defines our sense of belonging. 
Alternating fragments from Yamina’s Algerian past with those of her Paris present, Discretion spans the history of colonial conflict from the Second World War to the present day. A tribute to mothers everywhere, it is also the story of a modern French family feeling their way through the puzzle of their history – and finding one another as they go along.

Discretion

Contemporary

Saqi Books

Deftly moving between Algeria and Paris,&nbsp;bestselling novelist Faïza Guène's&nbsp;Discretion&nbsp;compellingly evokes the realities of a first- and second-generation family as they carve out a future for themselves in France, finding one another as they go along.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, grateful to the country that hosts her and her adored family. The closest she gets to drama is scooping 'revolutionary' bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets.&nbsp; But Yamina's children feel differently. They don't always fit in in Paris, and it hurts. Omar wonders whether it's too late to change course as he watches the world pass him by from the driver's seat of his Uber. His sisters are tired of having to prove themselves, and their allegiance, to a place that is at once home, and not. When the whole family goes away on holiday - not to the motherland, but to a villa-with-pool rental near the Atlantic coast - the Talebs come to realise just how familydefines our sense of belonging.&nbsp;&nbsp; Alternating fragments from Yamina's Algerian past with those of her Paris present,&nbsp;Discretion&nbsp;spans the history of colonial conflict from the Second World War to the present day. A tribute to mothers everywhere, it is also the story of a modern French family feeling their way through the puzzle of their history - and finding one another as they go along.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Literary

Is it possible to make your own path in the world while upholding your family legacy? That's the question at the heart of this tender and poignant coming-of-age story from the widely-acclaimed author of Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow. Born in Nice to Algerian parents, Mourad is fuelled by the desire to forge his own destiny. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard; his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa. Mourad lives in fear of becoming an overweight bachelor with salt and pepper hair, living off his mother's cooking. When Mourad's father has a stroke, he makes his son promise to reconcile things with his estranged sister Dounia, a staunch feminist and aspiring politician, who had always felt constrained living at home. Now living in the Paris suburbs himself, Mourad tracks down Dounia and&nbsp;battles to span the gulf separating her and the rest of the family.

Men Don't Cry

Cassava Republic Press

192pages. in8. Broché. Doria a 15 ans, un sens aigu de la vanne, une connaissance encyclopédique de la télé, et des rêves qui la réveillent. Elle vit seule avec sa mère dans une cité de Livry-Gargan depuis que son père est parti un matin dans un taxi gris trouver au Maroc une femme plus jeune et plus féconde. Ça, chez Doria, ça s'appelle le mektoub, le destin: Ça veut dire que quoi que tu fasses, tu te feras toujours couiller. Alors autant ne pas trop penser à l'avenir et profiter du présent avec ceux qui l'aiment ou font semblant. Sa mère d'abord, femme de ménage dans un Formule 1 de Bagnolet et soleil dans sa vie. Son poteHamoudi, un grand de la cité qui l'a connue alorsqu'elle était haute comme une barrette de shit. Mme Burlaud, sa psychologue, qui met des porte-jarretelles et sent le Parapoux. Les assistantes sociales de la mairie qui défilent chez elle toujours parfaitement manucurées. Nabil le nul qui lui donne des cours particuliers et en profite pour lui voler son premier baiser. Ou encore Aziz, l'épicier du Sidi Mohamed Market avec qui Doria essaie en vain de caser sa mère. Il se mariera sans les inviter ? Peu importe, Maman et moi on s'en fout de pasfaire partie de la jet-set. Kiffe kiffe demain est d'abord une voix, celle d'une enfant des quartiers. Un roman plein de sève et d'humour.

Kiffe Kiffe Demain (French Edition)

Hachette

Il vient te chercher en bas de chez toi dans sa Ford Focus gris métal, t'ouvre l portière, te demande si tu as passe une bonne journée, et te complimente sur ta tenue vestimentaire. Toi, tu te sens belle, tu le regardes amoureusement en te disant que tu es bien avec lui. Alors vous sortez de la caisse, il se remet les burnes en place et il rote, toi, tu trouves ça dégueulasse mais tant pis, tu le kiffes. Il utilise le verrouillage centralise à distance, tut-tut, par-dessus son épaule, tu trouves ca super-classe, il est glamour, ça te plait, tu l'aimes. It t'annonce qu'il t'emmène au resto, tiens, ça n'arrive pas souvent. Comme tu regardes les films à l'eau de rose le dimanche après-midi à la télévision, tu crois qu'il va te faire sa demande en mariage. Mais au milieu de ta salade minceur, il t'explique qu'il a rencontré quelqu'un d'autre, que c'est une nana géniale et qu'il s'en va avec elle à Grenoble. Il plie bagage la semaine prochaine donc tu serais sympa de lui rendre la perceuse qu'il t'a prêtée et tous ses disques de Barry White. Et en passant, on partage l'addition ?

Du rêve pour les oufs

FAYARD

Les gens du Balto

Doria, quinze ans, jeune française d'origine marocaine, vit seule avec sa mère dans une cité de la banlieue parisienne. Dans son journal, elle raconte son quotidien, celui de son quartier, et dresse le portrait à la fois tendre et caustique de ceux qui l'entourent : sa mère, femme de ménage dans un hôtel, Hamoudi, son ami d'enfance, la psychologue, Mme Burlaud, Nabil le nul, Aziz l'épicier ou encore sa fausse tante Zohra.

Kiffe kiffe demain

Children's Books

POCHE JEUNESSE

Doria a 15 ans, un sens aigu de la vanne, une connaissance encyclopédique de la télé, et des rêves qui la réveillent. Elle vit seule avec sa mère dans une cité de Livry-Gargan depuis que son père est parti un matin dans un taxi gris trouver au Maroc une femme plus jeune et plus féconde. Ca, chez Doria, ça s'appelle le mektoub, le destin : "Ca veut dire que quoi que tu fasses, tu te feras toujours couiller." Alors autant ne pas trop penser à l'avenir et profiter du présent avec ceux qui l'aiment ou font semblant. Sa mère d'abord, femme de ménage dans un Formule 1 de Bagnolet et soleil de sa vie. Son pote Hamoudi, un grand de la cité qui l'a connue alors qu'elle était "haute comme une barrette de shit". Mme Burlaud, sa psychologue, qui met des porte-jarretelles et sent le Parapoux. Les assistantes sociales de la mairie qui défilent chez elle parfaitement manucurées. Nabil le nul qui lui donne des cours particuliers et en profite pour lui voler son premier baiser. Ou enc

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Some Dream for Fools

Some Dream For Fools

Discretion

Discretion

Men Don't Cry

Kiffe Kiffe Demain (French Edition)

Du rêve pour les oufs

Les gens du Balto

Kiffe kiffe demain

Kiffe Kiffe Demain (French Edition)