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‘Engrossing.’ Mail on Sunday
‘A powerful and compelling family saga.’ CHRISTINE MANGAN
‘Beautifully atmospheric.’ Financial Times
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABY
Morocco, 1968. The air is electric. Anything feels possible, and Mathilde is determined to celebrate it. Doesn’t she have the right to enjoy life, after dedicating her best years to the war and then to this farm?
Looking out at her elegant garden, Mathilde reflects on all she has achieved. Now in a newly independent country intoxicated by its own sense of freedom, she yearns for a radiant future.
But her babies are now grown up, and Mathilde is about to learn that life can take wild and unexpected turns.
Acclaim for The Country of Others:
‘A panoramic, ambitious tale.’ The Times
‘Exceptional.’ SALMAN RUSHDIE
‘Captivating.’ Elle
‘ I loved it and didn’t want it to end.’ CLAIRE MESSUD
‘As wild and lush as a wildflower meadow.’ Observer
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This is a novel that glides along with swan-like grace. . . [Slimani] has the novelist's rare skill of being able to nail a life in a single observation. . . Slimani is quietly devastating on how we are unwittingly, perhaps even helplessly, complicit with history.
The Sunday Times
Slimani's writing is beautifully atmospheric and has a panoramic, classic quality. There is a palpable love of land and people, and a pride that can be felt through the author's tone and vivid, colourful brushstrokes. It is both convincing and enveloping.
Financial Times
You don't have to have read The Country of Others to appreciate Watch Us Dance: Slimani provides a cast list that fills in the characters' pasts. That said, the experience of this novel is only enhanced by an encounter with its predecessor. We end here with a birth that takes the tale towards the next generation, Slimani's own childhood – and into the final volume of this rich account of how a family's life entwines with history.
Telegraph
