352 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1999 by Harcourt Brace.
352 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1999 by Harcourt Brace.
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.