The Country of Others

By: Leïla Slimani, Sam Taylor

Narrated by: Nabiha Akkari

Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier, billeted in her town, fighting for the French.
After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France, following Amine to Morocco. But life here is unrecognizable to this brave and passionate young woman. Where she she once danced, bickered with her sister, her life is now that of a farmer's wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings.
Suffocated by the heat, by her loneliness on the farm, by the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner and by the lack of money Mathilde grows restless. As Morocco's own struggle for independence grows daily, Mathilde and Amine find themselves caught in the crossfire . . .
This story of two nations at war, two cultures at loggerheads, and one family torn apart is as tenderly observed as it is devastatingly true

©2021 Leïla Slimani (P)2021 Faber & Faber

Ver bad audio

The book is beautiful but there is echo on the recording, like it wasn’t recorded in a studio cut a big empty room, the narrator has a think French accent and this makes it harder to followers along. Would not recommend in audiobook.