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Bitter Almonds (Paperback)
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Bitter Almonds (Paperback)

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Paperback 176 Pages / Published: 11/04/2013
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Synopsis
Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her 60-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. So she decides to become Fadila's French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging than she thought. Yet during these lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Edith and Fadila, an immigrant from Morocco, begin to understand one another as never before and from this understanding blossoms a surprising friendship. Edith will enter contact with a way of life that is unforgiving at times, but joyful and dignified.

Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 9781609450892
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 239 g
Dimensions: 210 x 135 x 15 mm

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“A book of elegant simplicity”

Educated. middle-class Edith is shocked to discover that her Moroccan cleaner, Fadila, can neither read nor write. She decides to teach her, but this proves to be more difficult than she had imagined.

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