A tale for anyone who has ever lived outside looking in, especially from that alien country called adolescence. A funny, heartfelt story from a wise guy who happens to be a girl. If you've ever fallen in love, if you've ever had your heart broken, this story is your story." -- Sandra Cisneros, author of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET The book became so significant you might even say there is a “before Kiffe Kiffe” and an “after Kiffe Kiffe” on France’s literary landscape. Le texte ne doit pas être écrit en capitales (les noms de famille non plus), ni en gras, ni en italique, ni en «petit»… Sabrina Fatmi Sakri, « Du rêve pour les oufs de Faiza Guène ou l'ironie comme stratégie de l'écriture féminine», Littérature maghrébine de langue française,‎ 2011, p.141-150 ( lire en ligne) . C’est le seizième anniversaire de Doria mais personne ne s’en est rappelé. Elle se sent pas aimée et elle croit si elle était un garçon, tout serait diffèrent. Meilleur.

Guène, herself the child of Algerian immigrants, also grew up in the projects just outside Paris, lending Doria's experiences the ring of gritty truth. You don't have to know much about French history or culture, because Guène explains it all for you beautifully, but if you do know from the Algerian war and the current racism in the banlieues, there's an added layer here to savor. J’étude le dernier année et je suis en train de lire ce livre et j’ai beaucoup de problèmes avec l’argot car il y en a beaucoup. Pourriez-vous me recommander quelque dictionnaire d’argot que je puisse utiliser?Marjorie Corcier, « Le bateau du 93 va bientôt mettre les voiles», sur leparisien.fr, 7 avril 2006 (consulté le 18 août 2020). Ce documentaire fut réalisé avec Bernard Richard et financé par l'association Les Engraineurs [104 ]. The comparison with Catcher in the Rye and The Invisible Man is as much to suggest that this work deserves to become a French classic. Not because it’s “Lit-ruh-chuh”, but almost precisely because it’s not. It’s a blast of fresh air through the self-satisfied, whiney navel-gazing going on in a lot of celebrated current French novels. For all the adolescent POV, the novel is refreshingly unself-centered. And in daring to put forth for the very first time in French And that novel, Kiffe Kiffe Demain (Just Like Tomorrow), would then be published in 2004, to great acclaim. To date, it has sold 400,000 copies in France alone and it is now even used as reading material in high schools.

en) Marion E. Hines, « Onomastic resemblances and the use of names in Faïza Guène's "Kiffe kiffe Demain"», CLA Journal, vol.54, n o1,‎ 2010, p.77–106 ( ISSN 0007-8549, lire en ligne, consulté le 17 août 2020) . And it was lovely to meet Doria and Yasmina. Their relationship was the best thing of all. Doria’s pride in her mother and how she was working to support them both. Yasmina’s confidence in her daughter, tempered with concern and uncertainly about what the future might hold.a b et c Laura Ceia-Minjares, « DJ Zaïfe: Remix de la cité du Paradis: Interview avec Faïza Guène, écrivaine», Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol.11, n o1,‎ 1 er janvier 2007, p.93–97 ( ISSN 1740-9292, DOI 10.1080/17409290601136003, lire en ligne, consulté le 18 août 2020) . Pierre Langlais, « “Oussekine”, sur Disney+, une minisérie bouleversante sur la mort de Malik Oussekine», sur Télérama, 11 mai 2022 (consulté le 19 mai 2022)

la sortie du roman La Discrétion, la journaliste de France Info Laurence Houot note qu'elle «restitue avec pudeur et humour une histoire complexe» [69 ]. L’universitaire Alison Rice rappelle que cet évènement sera intégré et reconnu de manière symbolique dans Kiffe kiffe demain, dans un passage où l'héroïne relate l'amour que porte sa mère pour le maire de Paris, Bertrand Delanoë depuis qu'il a posé une plaque commémorative en souvenir des victimes [103 ].

Doria, she gravitates toward thinking of her life in terms of movies, those thoughts are quite funny. In the 2016 documentary Nos Plumes (Our Writers), filmmaker Keira Maameri (whose parents are also Algerian) focused on Guène and other authors and comics artists from the banlieues who are still perceived in France as being “different”. She quotes a passage from Baldwin’s novel The Fire Next Time in the prologue of La Discretion, which she feels perfectly describes her parents’ generation as well as hers, and is a chilling description of events happening today in the US:

We tell ourselves; they went through all that, and we are still treated the same way. The question now is how to deal with the anger' It’s a cloudy, drizzly day in Paris when I meet Faïza Guène in a cafe near the Gare de l’Est train station. She is sitting with a teenager that she is mentoring, telling them that being a writer will not make you rich. The fire this time: French novelist Faiza Guene on writing, anger and dreams of '98 | Middle East Eye The Arab immigrant community Doria lives in is rich with all the good and bad aspects of their culture: parties, foods, henna, yes, but also heavy restrictions on women and girls, andAmanda Jacquel, « Grace Ly en lutte contre l’invisibilité des Asiatiques de France», sur Bondy Blog, 6 juin 2018.