{"id":25363,"date":"2019-02-11T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=25363"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:33:51","slug":"leila-slimani-the-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2019\/02\/11\/leila-slimani-the-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Le\u00efla Slimani: “The Confession”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The Confession”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Le\u00efla Slimani<\/span>
\ntranslated from the French by Sam Taylor<\/span>
\nFrom the February 18 & 25, 2019 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″]L[\/fusion_dropcap]e\u00efla Slimani is a young novelist from Morocco who won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2016 for her second novel The Perfect Nanny<\/em> (or\u00a0Lullaby<\/em> in the United Kingdom). I haven’t read it, but I definitely heard a lot about it last year. Penguin followed it up by publishing her debut novel Ad\u00e8le<\/em> this past month. I’m curious if any of you have read either book and what you thought.<\/p>\n

Of course, we’re here right now for the story in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>. “Here is how “The Confession” begins:<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you my name. Or the name of the rural village where this story took place. My father is a feared and respected man there, and I do not want to bring shame upon him. He was born on those fertile plains but he made his career in the city, where he became an important man who wears suits and drives a big car. In my sixteenth summer, he sent me to \u201cthat hole\u201d to learn the hard life of the countryside, to strengthen my soul and my muscles. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to be like those idle boys who wander our streets,\u201d he told me. \u201cThere you will learn how to live.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Knowing only what her two novels that have been translated are focused on (you can look them up), I’m wondering where “The Confession” will go and who here will think it worth the trip. Please comment below and discuss what you thought of the story or of Slimani’s novels.<\/p>\n

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