Author

Publication

1999 - Picador, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

94,000 words, Guess

Page Count

376 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • LibraryThing18259
  • OCLC Control Number42137761
  • Better World Books9780330375634

Classifications

  • LCCPS3563.E8134 L37 1999
  • DDC813/.54

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The last lifePicador1999

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