In livre léger et drôle qui raconte de manière simple la vie d’une jeune adolescente vivant en cité. Cela dit rien de transcendant mais j’ai hâte de lire kiffe kiffe hier qui vient de sortir !

ok puta frança i putos gabacsos EXCEPTE les banlieusardes (ratxets de suburbi parisenc) amb consciència de classe i que parlen verlan (un argot sorgit allí q consosteix en parlar invertint les síl·labes, una mica com fan els argentins). la faïza guène l'absoluta bogigi amb 19 anys va escriure un llibre tan mordaç intel·ligent i graciós sobre frança i la banlieue com els articles de la indicatiu a núvol sobre sarnalona. no, de veritat, ara un consell per a les meues popudes i els meus afruitats, si mai us trobeu amb un titolut q flexeja d'haver llegit albert camus, mes especificament l'étranger, sodomitzeu-lo amb aquest llibre perque es l'antidot perfecte. per cert com q rimbaud ere mar i cel??? mestre en GAI saber no krissejadament opino.

i per acabar.... es un llibre breu, divertit, fàcil i amb molt de joc lingüistic i cultural!! tant de bo m'haguessin fet llegir això a traducció en comptes de candide ou l'optimisme q semblave una festa barcelonauta on la gent va fornosa per haver-se llepat mdma als dits els un dels altres o l'amélie nothomb q francament me semble una otaka tonta i obviament q anagrama l'han traduït.

pd. per llegir la faïza guène cal estrimejar sexion d'assaut, fatal bazooka (especificament el q van fer amb la yelle) i la d'une femme like u, aixi entres mes en mon de la novel·la!!! es com escoltar ginestà abans de llegir el pol guasch o tarta relena abans de la irene solà....meushkes reals entendran

n  “‘Why would he give a shit about voting?’ The guy already has to fight daily just to survive, so you can forget about his duties as a citizen .. If his situation improved a little, maybe he would want to get out and vote.

I wonder if this is why these housing developments are left to decay, because few people around here vote. You have no political usefulness if you don’t vote.”
n

Our narrator, the very acerbic Doria, is surrounded by culturally ignorant people in her daily life while at home she lives among her “own people” you could say. Doria and her mother are living in France after immigrating from Morocco along with her awful, sexist father. He eventually moved back to have another family and finally has his own son just as he’s always dreamt. Good riddance I say, they are better off without him anyway.

n  “Dad, he wanted a son. For his pride, his reputation, his family honor, and I’m sure lots of other stupid reasons.”n

See?

What a terrible waste of a ‘sperm donor’.

n  “Our generation’s lucky because you get to choose who you’re going to love for the rest of your life. Or the rest of the year. Depends on the couple.”n

Doria, she gravitates toward thinking of her life in terms of movies, those thoughts are quite funny.

n  “It’s like a film script and we’re the actors. Trouble is, our scriptwriter’s got no talent. And he’s never heard of happily ever after.”n

She’s moody at times like all teenagers are but she loves her mom and wants to better their lives and she got spunk to go with it - I’m sure both these women will do just fine on their own.

n  “Later when my breasts are bigger and I’m a little bit more intelligent, like when I’m adult, I’ll join up with a group that helps people...

Knowing there are people who need you and you can be useful to them, it’s really cool.

One of these days, if I don’t need my blood or one of my kidneys, I could donate them to the sick people who’ve had their names on the lists for forever. But still, I wouldn’t do it for a clear conscience or so I could look at myself in the mirror when I’m taking off my makeup after work, but because I really wanted to do it.”n

A story about growth and self discovery!!!

J'aimais bien ce livre. Faïza Guène est écrivaine avec plein d'esprit et douée. Son histoire est pure, qui le fait une bonne lecture. J'aimais spécialement la representation brute de la banlieue - un lieu en Paris qui est normalement généralisé comme pauvre et louche - qui était peint plus charmant. C'est une vraie représentation qu'on doit apprécier!

3.5 ⭐️ grappig boekje, en toch vol met wijze uitspraken!

I give this book 4 stars,even i want to give it 5 stars.
This book talks about a girl ,named Doria .she's fifteen years old,living with her mother _illetirate woman stuck in a dead end job _her father took off back to Morocco in order to marry a fertile woman ,because he wished for a long time a son not a daughter. Due the miserable life Doria is living she was bad at school where all her teachers were seeing her a bit depressed ;so she was obliged to follow sessions with a psychologist Mrs.Burlaud,who smells of alcohol.
the plot was open ,it has no beginning no end . it was a speech of the main character which she judges,criticizes the events ,the people around her. The book tackles some serious matters the most profound one is the suffers of the girl when her parents wanted a boy ,because how much we are developed and we are aware,this belief seems to be living forever in the mind of our Arabic society,always seeing the boy stronger and valuable than the girl .
The life of Doria was a bit hard ,with the neighborhood and the school where she struggles to fit in ,the prejudices that she gets because of her way of wearing (they even smirk at her).
But the book was light funny and hilarious in some chapters (the first time she got her period and when she wanted to buy sanitary towels

Another copy I picked up at the office...turned out to be fascinating. This is the story of a young Algerian girl who lives in the slums surrounding Paris. I've never read a story about this group in France--preferring to focus on the artisan and historical stories--and I found the story to be full of rage, Americanisms and sadness. A compelling peek into a world that I knew nothing about. Sad really.

Relu pour pouvoir lire « Kiffe kiffe hier? » et c’est toujours aussi cool de retrouver la star Doria

4.5 stars. Like a lot of French students, I had to read this book in high school. I picked it up this summer to reread so I could practice my French. It’s a great book for high school students—super funny and super relatable. With Doria, Faïza Guène has created such a realistic, vibrant teen character. One of the most important things I look for in a book is a character’s voice. Here, Doria’s voice clearly shines through. She is funny and sarcastic and cynical and dreamy and just the tiniest bit insecure. She is cognizant of the ways in which her life is unfair because of her class and gender, and she sees right through other people’s bullshit. However, her humor keeps the book afloat.

This is a good book for intermediate French students who want to stretch themselves. While there was a lot of vocabulary that I had to look up, I could read most of it and understand it. In addition, it’s a great resource for learning how ordinary French people speak. Guène includes a lot of slang (both French and Arabic). She also includes a lot of idioms and writes in an informal style that mirrors French speaking patterns. I would also recommend the English translation if you can’t/don’t want to read the French version.

Un roman qui change, très drôle au style surprenant

I wish to counteract the negativity of my financial patronage of this book through my purchase of it with this review. This book markets itself as a book designed to relate to high schoolers and be that their reading level but is in fact a thinly veiled attempt at political propaganda, which makes its target age group a moral concern. This story’s exaggeration of racism coupled with it’s negative stereotypes not only increase reverse racist sentiment in the mentally feeble reader but it’s clearly designed to increase support for the political left through the power of false victimisation. I am in no means suggesting that the racism prorated in this book doesn’t exist but it’s certainly not common or accepted in western societies like this book makes it out to. I am unreserved in my opinion that this by far the worst book I’ve ever read and I am deeply concerned that a kid might either through their own volition or through the school program be made to read it and propagandised towards a violent ideology of thinly vailed hate and racism under the guise of love and anti racism.