The art of losing. Zeniter Alice

The novel “The Art of Losing” brought the author of the Goncurovsky Prize of Lyceumists and the Le Monde Prize. A strong and frank saga about three generations of one family, which passed the three wars that changed the continents. “The art of losing” is a novel about what price our descendants pay for the choice that we make. Naima knows almost nothing about Algeria - the homeland of her ancestors. She does not understand Arabic, is not fond of national cuisine and does not see the value in family trinkets. Her grandparents fled from the state ruined by the civil war. Their children had to renounce the past and their cultural identity in order to get a chance for the future in France. Now Naima goes on an independent journey to Algeria, where he discovers that she is much more connected with this country than she expected. The story of how we continue to live in the face of loss: the loss of the country, identity, language, ties. About the legacy of colonialism, immigration, about family and war.