by Morgan Sportès · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246402015
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«Outremer» is the novel by Morgan Sportès, published by Grasset in paperback (336 pages, in French).
The narrator, born during the Algerian War, grows up between the legacy of a settler and Jewish father and an antisemitic mother. His account moves between family memory, his mother's madness, and the attempt to build himself with words against the backdrop of Algerian independence.
Published in 1989, this edition features the subtitle «roman» on the cover.
For readers of fiction with an interest in identity construction within a historical context of conflict.
Morgan Sportès is a French writer. He was born in Algiers in 1947. The author of more than 20 books, he has won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2006) for Maos, and the Prix Interallié (2011) and the Globes de Cristal (2012) for his novel Tout, tout de suite. Another novel L'Appât (1990) was turned into an award-winning movie by Bertrand Tavernier.
