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The last life (1999)

The last life (1999)

Historical Fiction

Claire Messud

Year: 1999
Authors: Claire Messud
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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.