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Boumkoeur (French Edition) [Jan 01, 1999] Djaidani, Rachid …

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Published January 1, 1999

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June 21, 2025
« Faites l'effort de nous rendre visite. Dans nos cités, c'est la France de demain qui est mise hors jeu. Elle te demande une poussette, une courte échelle, une aide autre que l'inauguration d'un panier de basket. »

Un court roman fort de vérité, dans lequel Yaz, 21 ans, relate de son quotidien, centré sur la cité dans laquelle il a grandi.
Yaz se focus sur les gens qui l'entourent, évoquant les problèmes de drogue de son frère, le passé de son père et, plus largement, une bonne partie de son histoire familiale. Il présente également d'autres figures du quartier, et les fonctionnements de celui-ci.
Le plot twist était inattendu, et au final, on ne sait pas trop si c'est l'argent ou un pétage de plomb qui a motivé le coup de Grézi. L'analyse que ce dernier fait de la prison montre, une fois encore, la difficulté de sortir d'un système qui défavorise les personnes issues des cités.

Écrit en 1999, et c'est toujours la même histoire.
Assez misogyne par moments, mais lire un français qui ne répond pas aux "normes d'écriture", ça fait du bien !
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August 23, 2021
Écriture fluide qui oscille entre langage de rue et vocabulaire plus soutenu. Bon rythme
Roman toujours d’actualité
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May 30, 2022
This is the first book I've read from French author Rachid Djaidani, but it is the second book this year that I read a novel about the French suburb/Guettos/ HLM where thousands of French of immigrant origins live crowded in high towers. The first book read was the well written and interesting "Kiffe Kiffe Demain" by Faiza Guène, but I was disappointed by this one despite having a promising beginning.

Readers follow the leading character and narrator, a young unemployed adult like too many living in a crowded suburbs of Paris. He decides to change his life going to nowhere by writing a book about the life in the guettos. What starts as a good idea ends up going nowhere because the author distracted the readers away from the subject. The author briefly introduces using his family, a friend, and some "key members" of the guetto in a stereotypical image. Then, he writes about:

- a "kidnapping" within the guetto,
- the leading character's father's short experience as a boxer prior to coming to France,
- and the leading character's "friend"'s narration of his first stay in prison.

The two latter sub-stories have nothing to do with life in the suburbs and the author forgot to focus on characters and developing them fully. The overall common message of these different sub-stories seems pessimistic to me as if the author wanted to say that people are doomed to stay in the same regardless of any efforts.
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