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Mathieu Belezi is the author of more than a dozen novels. His writing career began with Le petit roi, which won the Marguerite-Audoux Prize in 1999. His novel Attacking Earth and Sun has won the Prix Livre Inter and Le Monde Literary Prize. Having traveled widely and even taught in Louisiana, he now divides his time between France and Italy. Lara Vergnaud is a translator of prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works from the French. She is the recipient of two PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants and a French Voices Grand Prize, and has been nominated for the National Translation Award. She lives in France.
“Mathieu Belezi doesn’t pull any punches: he puts forth his vision of French colonization in Algeria.” —Leïla Slimani, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny “[Belezi] captures the racism that underpinned colonization and the greed that led to land expropriation, but also the doubts that gnawed at settlers who fled France to escape poverty.” —New York Times “[A] magnetic novel, with an impressive rhythmic power.” —Le Monde
