The Country of Others. Book Two. Watch how we dance

Laureate of the Goncurov Prize Leila Slimani, a French writer of Moroccan descent, continues in the novel “Watch how we dance” his family epic “Country of others”. The basis for the first book “Christmas under Cypresses” was the true story of her grandmother and grandfather - the Frenchwoman Matilda and Moroccan Amin, who met and loved each other at the end of the Second World War. Having gone through all the trials, Amin and Matilda got rich and became a respected couple in the Higher Society of Meknes. Now in the focus the fate of their children. Time does not stand still: in Morocco, after the proclamation of independence, a centuries -old way breaks, the conflict of generations is brewing. Children Amin and Matilda have to build life among political storms, make a choice between the West and the East, to resist authoritarian power, to seek their own path, their happiness, their love