Bitter Almonds - Laurence Cosse

Bitter Almonds

By: Laurence Cosse, Alison Anderson (Transcribed by)

Paperback | 18 November 2015 | Edition Number 1

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From the pen of Laurence Cossé, author of A Novel Bookstore, comes this delightful story about friendship across racial and economic barriers set in contemporary Paris.

Édith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is illiterate. How can a person living in Paris in the third millennium possibly survive without knowing how to read or write? How does she catch a bus, or pay a bill, or withdraw money from the bank? Why it's unacceptable! She thus decides to become Fadila's French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging that she thought. Their lessons are short, difficult, and tiring. Yet, during these lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Édith and Fadila, an immigrant from Morocco, begin to understand one other as never before, and from this understanding will blossom a surprising and delightful friendship. Édith will enter into contact with a way of life utterly unfamiliar to her, one that is unforgiving at times, but joyful and dignified.

About the Author

Laurence Cosse worked as a journalist before devoting herself entirely to fiction. She is the author of A Novel Bookstore. She lives in France.
Industry Reviews
Praise for Bitter Almonds

"Wry, sly, and coyly seditious, Cosse's piquant satire is a subtly wrought manifesto against blatant consumer manipulation and media malfeasance." -Carol Haggas, Booklist

"Cosse poignantly depicts characters."
-Publishers Weekly


Praise for Laurence Cosse's previous novels

"[A Novel Bookstore] makes a good argument for literature as a sensual pleasure surpassing even sex and fine wine."
-The Washington Post

"Marvelous and stimulating."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"A deeply satisfying manifesto of book love and a sharp indictment of those who would use such love for their own evil purposes."
-The Huffington Post

"The psychological issues Cosse raises [in An Accident in August] are telling and true."
-Kirkus Reviews

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