Tres días en Orán

"I always knew that one day I would have to go to Algeria. I am the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Blackfoot. As a child, I was proud of it, then ashamed of it. For a long time I found myself between those two shores. And the complex and painful relationship that I had with my roots directed my life despite myself, dictated my choices. When my grandmother died, I thought that day had come. On September 15, 2005, I took a flight with my father to Oran. I didn't know what we were going to do to find there, if the house where he was born still existed, how they would receive us. Above all, I didn't know if this trip, which I had waited so long for and forced my father to make with me, would be a victory or a mistake. There was a risk. I assumed". Can a single trip give meaning to a lifetime? That is the question that articulates this delicate and nostalgic memory exercise about family, identity and history. This edition also includes the epilogue "Desire and fear", which the author added after the numerous letters received and the lively reactions that the publication of her book unleashed on both shores of the Mediterranean.