EPISODE · Aug 10, 2021 · 10 MIN
In the Country of Others: A Novel by Leila Slimani
from Get Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Deborah Feest
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Country of Others: A Novel Author: Leila Slimani Narrator: Lara Sawalha Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that “lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating experience of war” (The New York Times Book Review) After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Mathilde’s fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country’s fight for independence in this lush and transporting novel about race, resilience, and women’s empowerment.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Country of Others: A Novel Author: Leila Slimani Narrator: Lara Sawalha Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that “lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating experience of war” (The New York Times Book Review) After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Mathilde’s fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country’s fight for independence in this lush and transporting novel about race, resilience, and women’s empowerment.
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