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Watch us dance, Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor

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Watch us dance

Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor

In the country of others, 2

It's the 1960s, and the air is electric. On the cusp of adulthood, two biracial siblings - their father is Moroccan, their mother French - search for their place in a newly independent Morocco brimming. Aicha aspires to become a doctor and spends most of her time studying. Her younger brother, Selim, falls in with the American and European hippies descending en masse to do drugs and practice free love. Aicha and Selim soon find the ideals of their youth colliding with the realities of racism and corruption, as Moroccans once united against their coloniser make a grab for wealth and influence, and the national spirit of communal celebration gives way to elites telling everyone else to 'watch us dance'

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