Is There Attention in Your Family From You Writing About Their Personal History?

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"I think fiction has a role to play, actually, maybe. Certainly yes," she says. "There were bad people, bad colonist, but also a very simple individual who just came there to work and have a farm." The only living e person in her family that is upset by the book's revelations about their personal history is her mother. She tells lela: 'If it's a good book, i don't care what you write in it'

In conversation with writer and cultural historian Shahidha Bari, Slimani shared her insights into the impact of colonialism and the ways in which women in particular find themselves othered, politically, culturally and historically. To buy her new book 'The Country of Others' with the Intelligence Squared discount click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/the-country-of-others-leila-slimani-subscribers/

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