I'm rememberingat the beginning, when when matilda is writing home to her family, she doesn't want to betray how unhappy she is or her discomfort. And so she writes in all the typical orientalist tropes. But of course, i wanted also the reader to to see another moracle, the moraco that i know. So it was impossible not to have this orientadist point of view. I tried to use the emotion i had when i was a child. The fact that i wrote this book when i was in france and not in moroco, helped me a lot. Because i had to remember of my own childhood in the farm, of the sensation of a