The last life
By: Claire Messud
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780151004713
Subjects: French Americans; Fiction
Description: A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting he is no longer in the colonies goes to jail for shooting at rowdy teenagers by a pool.