Bitter Almonds
By: Laurence Cosse ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Alison, translator
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781609450892
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Adult learning; Fiction; Master and servant
Work titles: Amandes ameres
Description: "Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How can a person living in Paris in the third millennium possibly survive without knowing how to read or write? How does she catch a bus, or pay a bill, or withdraw money from the bank? Why it's unacceptable! She thus decides to become Fadila's French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging that she thought"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Translated from the French.