Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

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J'avais été attiré par certains échos concernant ce livre. Je l'ai obtenu dans le cadre des échanges de Babelio et ne peux que remercier « Paroles » de me l'avoir fait parvenir. She’s moody at times like all teenagers are but she loves her mom and wants to better their lives and she got spunk to go with it - I’m sure both these women will do just fine on their own.

Recently, Guène has started to question the foundations upon which she had built her identity, reading as much as she can about the history of Algeria, its colonisation, independence and immigrants in France. Faïza Guène on France Culture radio in 2018 discussing what the French call "transclasses", or moving from one social class to another (France Culture) Faïza Guène est réalisatrice de plusieurs courts-métrages. Parmi ceux-ci, on notera : "La Zonzonnière" en 1999, "RTT et Rumeurs" en 2002 et "Rien que des mots" en 2004.Et en effet, c'est un roman qui m'a réservé quelques surprises. Je suis d'abord rentré dans le livre avec un certain plaisir car il est écrit de façon très agréable, très fluide, très compréhensible malgré quelques termes de verlan ou dit « des cités » qui ne gênent absolument pas la lecture et font vraiment parti du langage de notre monde, donc en quelque sorte de notre quotidien. Faïza Guène is the bestselling, award-winning French-Algerian author of six novels largely set among the Algerian community living in the outskirts of Paris. She shot to fame in 2004 at 19 with the publication of Kiffe kiffe demain ( Just Like Tomorrow), which used street slang to capture the world of 15-year-old Doria, growing up on the ill-named Paradise estate. Her latest novel, Discretion, tells the story of the Taleb family over seven decades, and their journey from a small village in Algeria to the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. Moving and irreverent, sad and funny, full of rage and intelligence. [Guène's] characters are unforgettable, her voice fresh, and her book a delight." -- Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Can you tell us about Oussekine, the series you co-scripted for Disney+, which recreates the story of Malik Oussekine , the 22-year-old Algerian student clubbed to death by French police in 1986 ? He also dabbled in journalism, a career that began while he was planning a cycling trip . During his preparations Guven had a chance encounter with journalist and former director of the newspaper Le Monde , Eric Fottorino, who was organising a cycling trip himself and invited Guven along for the 3,479-kilometre journey. After the trip, Fottorino hired Guven as a manager at a weekly publication he founded called Le 1 , where Guven stayed for four years. "At Le 1 I met authors and realis ed they were normal people. Having been athletic, I realis ed that many of the qualities you need in sport , you also need to write , such as endurance, discipline and patience ," he says.

It did not surprise me when I read the author’s biography and found that the author experienced the same life she writes about. I don’t know whether it is the translation but this novel reads less like a fictional piece and more like documentary – raw, real and right there, in front of you. Doria’s observations about the hierarchy, the pain of being a girl when your father wanted a boy, wearing clothes that make other people smirk and laugh – these are just so on point. So on point that the line between reality and fictionality blurs significantly. When Zidane plays football, he draws on immense technical skills, but the 10-year-olds watching him think it looks easy and want to become footballers themselves. When I write, people mustn’t be able to see the difficulty of what I do. The effort mustn’t be apparent in the book. It seems like fate’s dealt them an impossible hand, but Doria might still make a new life. She'll prove the projects aren't only about rap, soccer, and religious tension. She’ll take the Arabic word kif-kif (same old, same old) and mix it up with the French verb kiffer (to really like something). Now she has a whole new motto: KIFFE KIFFE TOMORROW.It was a moment that was crystallised for the character Zouzou (a young woman whose mother is French and her father a Kabyle from Algeria) and for many French when the country won the World Cup football match in 1998. Your novel is very frank about family tensions and the difficulties the younger generation has in finding love. Given the hostile stereotypes about Algerians in France, did you ever feel a desire to present your characters in a more obviously “positive” light?