376 pages
English language
Published Dec. 8, 1999 by Picador.
The last life
4 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- French Americans -- Fiction