Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

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She’s moody at times like all teenagers are but she loves her mom and wants to better their lives and she got spunk to go with it - I’m sure both these women will do just fine on their own. The title of this book, Kiffe kiffe demain, must give translators nightmares. The problem is that it’s a play on words, and not just on any normal words, but ghetto slang. “ Kif kif” is vernacular roughly meaning “same ‘ole, same ‘ole”; “ kiffer” is vernacular meaning “to like/love”. The title has a bittersweet tang derived from the opposing feelings of despair (“same ‘ole shit tomorrow”) and hope (“loving tomorrow”). That title must also give those tight-arsed asshats at the French Academy nightmares. “But zis is ghetto Frrench! Quelle horreur!”

Born in Bobigny, France, in 1985, to parents of Algerian origin, [1] Guène grew up in Pantin, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. She attended Collège Jean Jaurès, followed by Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Pantin. [2] She began studies in sociology at Université Paris VIII, in St-Denis, before abandoning them to pursue writing and directing full-time.If I didn’t have personality, I would have been eaten alive. In retrospect, I realised how difficult and brutal the media coverage was. I was the first of my kind and was treated like a court jester, a freak.”

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, and A film like Les Miserables is very rare, says Guène. “It’s important to give young people the tools to think about our society and give them other archetypes than what we usually see. I got a letter from a woman who was almost 90 years old, a Frenchwoman who had been a teacher in Algeria. She wrote to tell me she had no heirs and no money but a library with lots of novels from her time in Algeria. When she read Discretion, she realised she wanted to leave her books to me. Her letter made me cry. She sent me a box with all the books. It was wonderful, full of incredible things: the first manifestos of the Front de Libération Nationale [the Algerian independence movement], novels by Algerian authors in Arabic and a French translation of what is considered the first official Algerian novel, Le vent du sud by Abdelhamid Benhadouga. It’s an extraordinary book. It did not surprise me when I read the author’s biography and found that the author experienced the same life she writes about. I don’t know whether it is the translation but this novel reads less like a fictional piece and more like documentary – raw, real and right there, in front of you. Doria’s observations about the hierarchy, the pain of being a girl when your father wanted a boy, wearing clothes that make other people smirk and laugh – these are just so on point. So on point that the line between reality and fictionality blurs significantly. When French author Fai za Gue ne's book, Kiffe Kiffe Demain ( Just Like Tomorrow ) was published in 2004, it took the world by storm . More than 400,000 copies have been sold and it was translated from French into several languages , while it is now studied in high schools in countries such as the UK.Faïza Guène (born 7 June 1985) is a French writer and director, best known for her two novels, Kiffe kiffe demain and Du rêve pour les oufs. She has also directed several short films, including Rien que des mots (2004). She has spent time searching for answers to this anger, and in the process says she found author James Baldwin’s writings closest to her heart. Involuntarily, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my identity. I would have preferred to spend more time thinking about my literature.” Inherited shame Son premier roman, "Kiffe kiffe demain", a été l'une des meilleures ventes de l'année 2004. Elle publie en 2006 "Du rêve pour les oufs", puis, en 2008, "Les gens du Balto", aux éditions Hachette Littératures. En 2014, "Un homme, ça ne pleure pas" chez Fayard est lauréat du Prix littéraire des lycéens et apprentis de Bourgogne en 2015.