Quick read, and not boring-per-se, but I didn't really think that the book was particularly insightful. The main character was conventionally sassy in a funny way - but, again, nothing particularly worth writing home about… and the ending was a little cheesy for me…

Bien aimé, très français.

Destin, pauvreté, pouvoir du langage et du nom propre.

A very accurate representation of the life of Arabic Immigrants in France. Written in the no nonsense a bit rash style of a teenager the book grabs you from beginning to end. Reading about the conditions of life for some of these unfortunate women only makes you want to change things for the unfortunate immigrants.
A fresh look on immigration and on surviving even in difficult conditions.
The voice of the young girl is sometimes angry but it is an anger that is directed to the injustices that are commited around her, and to the people who treat her like an outsider and an unimportant entity, so the anger is very justifiable... And we see her at the end of the book change that attitude towards acceptance and love which is very refreshing.
Wonderful and fast read because the style is so engaging. I read it in English, I'm sure the french version is even better.

Je partage avec vous un petit avis sur "Kiffe Kiffe demain" de Faiza Guène ainsi que quelques extraits sur la photo.

-Genre : Roman / Littérature jeunesse

-Editions: Le Livre De Poche

Mon avis : Nous ouvrons le journal intime de Doria, une adolescente banlieusarde (prenons le sens péjoratif du mot)

Doria vit avec sa mère. Toutes deux abandonnées par un homme parti chercher une descendance mâle dans son pays natal.

Le roman se compose de chapitres courts dont la thématique est une idée à développer ou un personnage à connaître. Le tout avec une pointe d'humour et un vocabulaire qui passe du registre soutenu au familier quand il s'agit de faire parler l'entourage de Doria.

Malgré la légèreté que peuvent dégager le titre et le sujet peu original, il y a un travail de fond que je tiens à mettre en avant: les échanges entre les personnages traitent des sujets importants des gens des cités : racisme, solidarité, rivalité, extrémisme religieux, le besoin d'évoluer, de changer et le souhait de s'en sortir.

Avec l'insouciance de ses 15 ans et sa pseudo naïveté , le personnage de Doria traduit avec ses mots les pensées des jeunes d'origine maghrébine (ou autre) qui ,depuis des décennies ,si ce n'est pas plus, condamnent et stigmatisent les mentalités ségrégationnistes.

Faiza Guène , elle, dénonce en écrivant ce qui fait mal de l'intérieur : famille et de l'extérieur : La France.

Cutting edge teenage angst kinda funny

why am i so emotional i kinda hated this book until now ! (thank u for the sweet ending i am so so so proud of all the characters #characterdevelopment

niestety mocno czuć, że była wydana te 20 lat temu, nie zestarzała się zbyt dobrze. poza tym strasznie infantylny styl pisania.

This is the second novel I've read from French author Faïza Guène. In this book, which was her first debut novel and success, the author introduces to the lives of the Guettos/ HLM/ Banlieus through the eyes of a teenage French girl of Moroccan poor parents and abandoned by her father. The author debileteraly doesn't focus on violence and drugs like the French Media/Politicians keep stigmatizing them for. She does mention it, but the author depicts the lives of the various residents and how there are many similarities, but also differences.

Like the leading character, a teenage girl lost into who she is and what is her place in life, in the residence, the city and country. Thus, she's always in doubt, angry, clueless, pessimistic and hopeless because her life seems not to change at all and just like everyone else. Easy to feel negative and disappointed of life in that environment. However, with time, the leading character observes some small and positive changes into various people's lives, whether about love, financial status, or happiness. Thus, she gains confidence in her own future.

Somewhat bleak but interesting story, doubly worth reading since the shootings at Charlie Hebdo

This book is written in such an authentic voice that I can hear the narrator speaking to me, as if she were a friend sitting next to me or on the phone. She is an imaginative friend at that, spinning off relatable tangents that invite me into her world, the world of a fifteen year-old girl with a single mom who rages half-heartedly against her father, her schooling, the world. It is a clever story, a vignette of the difficulties of the real world, told with a hint of naïveté - not in the narrator’s voice or perspective, but in how things go from dramatically bad at the beginning of the story to dramatically good at the end. The book is easy to read but also full of slang and cultural references - both Maghrebin culture and pop culture in general - and also a little dated by the old technology. But the ideas are universal, and it was a very worthwhile read.

Bra ungdomsbok om livet på 2000 talet för en ung muslimsk flicka i en utsatt förort i Paris. Passar bra för högstadiet.

Lu par Lyna Khoudri = du miel dans mes oreilles