Watch us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of André Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place and time of The Lost Daughter.
Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Portugal.
'Slimani excels at telling this wide-ranging story, expertly
folding themesof love, loss, alienation, gender, and belonging into
a complex narrative.' -Vogue, on The Country of Others
'Personal life, social life, everyday life spring vividly from the
page . . . Anexceptional, powerful novel from this justly
celebrated writer.'- SALMANRUSHDIE, on The Country of Others
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