
How do you live in Algeria when you grow up speaking French, with a French mother? How do you live in France when you've spent your childhood in Algeria with an Algerian father? "Tomboy" is the story of a girl whose father calls her Brio, whose alter ego is Amine, and whose mother is a blue-eyed blond. But who is she? Born five years after Algerian independence in 1967, she navigates the cultural, emotional, and linguistic boundaries of identity living in a world that doesn't seem to recognize her. In this semi-autobiographical novel, the young French Algerian author Nina Bouraoui introduces us to a girl who feels that Algeria is the country of men. Her childhood years spent in Algeria lead her to explore the borderland between genders as she tries to find her balance between nations, races, and identities. With prose modelling the rhythm of the seasons and the sea, "Tomboy" enters the innermost...
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En uppväxtskildring som med Bouraouis särpräglade språk blir något alldeles unikt.
De teman som återkommer hela boken igenom sammanfattas väl i följande citat från s.124:
"Varje morgon kontrollerar jag min identitet. Jag har fyra problem. Fransyska? Algeriska? Flicka? Pojke?"
En fantastiskt begåvad författare med en helt egen stil. Orden strömmar fram. En språklig njutning.