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Vol. 1: In 1944, Mathilde, a young Alsatian woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan fighting in the French army. After the Liberation, she leaves her country to follow the man who will become her husband to Morocco. The couple settles in Meknes, a garrison town of settlers, where the colonial system of segregation is rigorously enforced. Amine recovers his rocky and ungrateful land, and thus begins a very difficult period for the family. Mathilde gives birth to two children: Aïcha and Sélim. At the cost of many sacrifices and vexations, Amine manages to organize his estate, by allying himself with a Hungarian doctor, Dragan Palosi, who will become a very close friend. Mathilde feels stifled by the rigorous climate of Morocco, by her solitude on the farm, by the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner, and by the lack of money. Relations between the settlers and the natives are very tense, and Amine finds himself caught in the middle: married to a French woman, a landowner employing Moroccan workers, he is assimilated to the settlers by the natives, and despised and humiliated by the French because he is Moroccan. He is proud of his wife, her courage, her particular beauty, her strong temperament, but he is also ashamed of her because she does not show the proper modesty or submission. Aïcha grows up in this climate of violence, following the education given to her by the Sisters in Meknes, where she associates with French girls from wealthy families who humiliate her. Selma, Amine's sister, nourishes dreams of freedom constantly stifled by the men around her. As Amine begins to reap the fruits of his hard work, riots break out and the plantations are set on fire: the novel ends with scenes of violence ushering in the country's accession to independence in 1956. [Back cover
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