The last life

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.

First sentence: I am American now, but this wasn't always so.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Harcourt Brace

Editions

2

Pages

352

ISBN

9780151004713

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