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The French bird

Years after leaving her childhood home of Algiers, the narrator embarks on a wander through what she calls her "Algerian labyrinth". Born in the 1960s to an Algerian father and a French mother, she belongs to a small community of children from mixed marriages, whose mothers married young Algerians who had come to study in France at the height of the war, and followed them to the country they were to help rebuild. In those early years of independence, there was still hope for...