In the Country of Others
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Acknowledgments
My thanks first of all to my editor, Jean-Marie Laclavetine, without whom this book would never have been published. His trust, his friendship, and his passion for literature bore me up through every page. I would also like to thank Marion Butel, whose grace and efficiency helped me steal the time I needed to write. I am extremely grateful to the historian Hassan Aourid, to Karim Boukhari and to Professors Mustapha Bencheikh and Maati Monjib, whose work inspired me and who were kind enough to enlighten me about life in Morocco in the 1950s. Thank you to Jamal Baddou for his openness and generosity. Lastly, I wish to give thanks with all my heart to my husband, Antoine, who forgives me my absences, who tenderly stands guard outside my office door, and who, with every passing day, proves to me how much he loves and supports me.
About the Author
Leila Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt. Her first novel, Adèle, about a sex-addicted woman in Paris, won the La Mamounia Prize for the best book by a Moroccan author written in French and gave rise to her nonfiction book Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, Slimani spearheaded a campaign--for which she won the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom--to help Moroccan women speak out, as self-declared outlaws, against their country's "unfair and obsolete laws." She is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France's annual list of The Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
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