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Ahmed de Bourgogne

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Ahmed n’a qu’un seul but : retrouver sa Bourgogne natale. Victime de la « double peine », il est expulsé vers l’Algérie après avoir passé deux ans en prison. Il refuse ce sort, il traverse dix pays, surmonte la fatigue et la faim, brave la surveillance des douaniers et déjoue les arnaques des passeurs. Son voyage est l’histoire véritable d’un revenant, d’un homme prêt à tout pour récupérer sa dignité. Azouz Begag est né en 1957. Écrivain, chercheur en économie et sociologie au CNRS, il a été ministre délégué à la Promotion de l’égalité des chances de 2005 à 2007. La plupart de ses livres, dont Le Gone du Chaâba , sont disponibles en Points. « Ce magnifique témoignage sur la double peine se lit d’une traite et nous permet de découvrir un homme qui a fait sienne la maxime de Victor Hugo : “vivre, c’est lutter”. » Marianne

204 pages, Paperback

First published May 4, 2001

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Azouz Begag

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Azouz Begag is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS.

Begag has written approximately 20 literary books for adults and children, as well as songs. Furthermore, he is the scriptwriter of the French movie Camping à la ferme ("Camping at the farm"), where he exposed his vision of "three levels of riches" multiculturalism in today's French society : the advantages of its relatively new multiethnicity due to a new non-European immigration mixed with the basis of its historical and natural multiculturality whether coming from the riches of its several regional cultures and languages or from the successful integration of previous waves of European immigration during its history.

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