Le bonheur a la queue glissante: Roman (Collection Fictions) (French Edition) [French]

By Abla Farhoud

Book Overview

Ce roman raconte avec fraîcheur le destin de Dounia, de Beyrouth à Montréal. « Je veux mourir là où mes enfants sont heureux », dit celle qui a finalement pris racine au Québec.Dounia, 75 ans, ne sait... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2890065952
• ISBN13: 9782890065956
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: L'Hexagone
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thoughtfully written...a surprising literary treat

This book came recommended to me by a good friend and, after savoring it little by little, it is clear why. Farhoud writes a very thoughtful commentary on time, aging, family, and the joys and hardships of leaving one's country and adopting a new one--to the extent that such a clear adoption is possible. But happiness does have a very slippery tail, and Farhoud's work evades and surpasses such easy lists of topics. It is about life and life's complexity; it is simple without being simplistic. A moral work in as much as the heroine asserts and lives by age-old precepts, Le Bonheur and Douma deftly avoid pedantry by questioning the very precepts she professes. This novel has something for everyone.