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La liste
La liste est l’histoire croisée de Fatima et Bouchta, aux personnalités complexes et attachantes. Fatima, femme forte, illettrée, intelligente, sincère et rusée se bat pour installer sa famille dans un logement décent, hors du bidonville. Bouchta, l’architecte du projet de relogement, est partagé entre ses désirs, ses amours et ses ambitions mais il sera vite rattrapé par ses origines sociales.
265 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 2013
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January 10, 2020
This is the first novel I've read from Moroccan author Maima Lahbil Tagemouati. The book follows the story of :
- Fatima, married with 3 children, living in a shantytown in Casablanca, who hopes to be allocated a land lot in the new and upcoming relocation of the shantytown's residents in a new area;
- Bouchta, married with 1 child, a mid-level government employee, responsible for the relocation project of the shantytown's residents.
The author wrote this book with too much realism. She detailed exhaustively life in a shantytown and the life and job of a mid level government employee asked to do a tremendous job with insufficient means. The author wrote this book as if writing a news article or a memo sticking to reality too much. In this novel, there is no added personnal writing style, no creativity, and no imagination to get the stories more interesting to read and more intriguing.
The stories are very straightfoward with no suspense. There was nothing special, unique or amazing to follow the life stories of the two main characters. It is so unfortunate because the author could have made this book a lot more interesting just by creating a small twist in the story. Let's imagine that Fatima and Bouchta happen to be sister and brother, who haven't seen each other a long time ago and became estranged due to family conflict. Then, the story would be good to read due with more personnal complications due to the unique nature of relationship between them.
The author suffers like many Moroccan authors omit to be creative and imaginative in their stories based on real life. If a reader is interested in learning about urbanization in Casablanca and its impact, you could read this book as if it were a documentary.
- Fatima, married with 3 children, living in a shantytown in Casablanca, who hopes to be allocated a land lot in the new and upcoming relocation of the shantytown's residents in a new area;
- Bouchta, married with 1 child, a mid-level government employee, responsible for the relocation project of the shantytown's residents.
The author wrote this book with too much realism. She detailed exhaustively life in a shantytown and the life and job of a mid level government employee asked to do a tremendous job with insufficient means. The author wrote this book as if writing a news article or a memo sticking to reality too much. In this novel, there is no added personnal writing style, no creativity, and no imagination to get the stories more interesting to read and more intriguing.
The stories are very straightfoward with no suspense. There was nothing special, unique or amazing to follow the life stories of the two main characters. It is so unfortunate because the author could have made this book a lot more interesting just by creating a small twist in the story. Let's imagine that Fatima and Bouchta happen to be sister and brother, who haven't seen each other a long time ago and became estranged due to family conflict. Then, the story would be good to read due with more personnal complications due to the unique nature of relationship between them.
The author suffers like many Moroccan authors omit to be creative and imaginative in their stories based on real life. If a reader is interested in learning about urbanization in Casablanca and its impact, you could read this book as if it were a documentary.
September 11, 2014
Abandonné à 70 pages de la fin... Mon avis détaillé arrive bientôt.
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