by Didier van Cauwelaert · ALBIN MICHEL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226070104
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«Un aller simple» is the novel by Didier van Cauwelaert, published by Albin Michel in paperback (208 pages, in French).
Aziz, a young man born in France of unknown origin and raised by the gypsies of Marseille, lives by stealing car radios. When the French government stages a media operation to deport him to Morocco, it entrusts him to an idealistic "humanitarian attaché" tasked with reintegrating him into his supposed roots. Together they embark on an initiatory journey to the High Atlas where an improbable yet moving friendship is born, narrated with humour and irony.
Prix Goncourt 1994.
For readers of contemporary French fiction seeking a story with humour, social critique and an initiatory journey.
Didier Van Cauwelaert is a French author and director of Belgian descent who was born in Nice. In 1994 his novel Un Aller simple won the Prix Goncourt.
