Partages
En 2002, c'est la seconde Intifada. Sarah, Juive d'origine polonaise, née et élevée à New York, est revenue vivre en Israël avec sa mère après les attentats du 11-Septembre. Leïla a grandi dans un camp de réfugiés en Cisjordanie. Toutes deux ont dix-sept ans. Leurs voix alternent dans un passage incessant des frontières et des mondes, puis se mêlent au rythme d'une marche qui, à travers les rues de Jérusalem, les conduit l'une vers l'autre.
Partages est un roman sur la communauté et sur la séparation, sur ce qui unit et divise à la fois. Sœurs ennemies, Leïla et Sarah sont deux Antigone dont le corps est la terre où border et ensevelir leurs morts.
- Bleue
- Paru le 30/08/2012
- Genre : Littérature française
- 192 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715233072
- ISBN : 9782715233072
Foreign Rights
Partages
Rights sold
Croatia - Disput
Awards
Short-listed for the Prix du Grand Roman de l’Académie Française
Long-listed for the Prix Goncourt
Presentation
It is 2002, year of the second Intifada. Sarah, a Jewish girl of Polish origins born and brought up in New York, has gone to live in Israel following the 9/11 attacks. Leila is Palestinian, born and brought up in a refugee camp. They are both seventeen.
Leila and Sarah's voices at first echo each other, describing ordinary everyday situations – daydreaming at a window, a change of season, a song – in a symmetrical reflection of their common experience. Then the voices separate, each tells her own story and memories. Finally, they mirror each other, page by page, as Sarah and Leila walk towards each other through the streets of Jerusalem.
Partages (which in French means both what is shared and what divides) is a novel about community and separation, about both the incommensurability of different histories and two haunted memories. Sarah and Leila are at once twins and enemies, two Antigones struggling against tragedy.
Gwenaëlle Aubry's most recent novels include No One (Tin House, 2012, original version Personne, Mercure de France, 2009, winner of the Prix Femina 2009, new edition Gallimard “Folio” series, 2011); Notre vie s'use en transfigurations, Actes Sud “Un endroit où aller” series, 2007; L’Isolement, Stock, 2003; L'Isolée, Stock 2002 (new edition Gallimard "Folio"series, 2011).
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