by Fouad Laroui · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266218658
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«Une année chez les français» is the novel by Fouad Laroui, published in 2011 by Pocket in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Mehdi, a ten-year-old boy from the Moroccan Atlas, receives a scholarship to study at the prestigious Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca. There he discovers a French world of luxury and strange customs, opposed to his family. The novel follows Mehdi's moving process of adaptation during a school year full of surprising characters.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of cultural clash and personal growth.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
