by Cécile Ladjali · Babel · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782330061227
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«Shâb ou la nuit» is Cécile Ladjali's autobiographical novel, published by Babel in paperback (320 pages, in French).
An adopted girl knows nothing of her Eastern origins; her loving but taciturn parents let her grow up in silence. When she finds her birth certificate, she discovers that her biological mother called her Roshan, «light» in Persian. The novel recounts the search for a lost identity and the conquest of language to name the world and to name oneself.
Shâb ou la nuit won the Roman métis des lycéens prize in 2013. Cécile Ladjali, born in Lausanne in 1971 to an Iranian mother, teaches literature in Paris.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in autobiographical stories about adoption, identity and the search for origins.
