The Last Life

Description:

A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting he is no longer in the colonies goes to jail for shooting at rowdy teenagers by a pool.

subjects: French Americans,  Fiction,  Fiction, historical,  France, fiction,  Algeria, fiction,  Fiction, sagas,  Fiction, historical, general