Le Silence des Peres de Rachid Benzine - J’ai adoré ce livre!
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Born and raised in France to Moroccan immigrants, Amine discovers at his father’s funeral cassette tapes that he had sent home to his own father in Morocco, recounting his life, loves, work in the mines and factories of France.
Amine comes to know his father for the first time through these tapes as in life he had been silent, distant, a stranger really.
A beautiful tribute from a son to his father, and a window into the life of the “30 glorieuses” in post-war French reconstruction years and growth fueled by immigrant labor and unspoken sacrifices.