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ISBN-10: 1583228853

ISBN-13: 9781583228852

Edition: 2009 (Movie Tie-In)

Authors: Francois Begaudeau, Linda Asher, Laurent Begaudeau

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" Franois Bgaudeau 's award-winning Entre les murs . . . trains the reader to look anew at the republican school and study the republican legacy with fresh eyes." Yale ReviewFranois Bgaudeau 's autobiographical novel of trying to teach the French language to a rowdy classroom of African teenagers on the outskirts of Paris is a tour de force. Winner of the Prix France Culture/T l rama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, and colonial history against the backdrop of a turbulent French society grappling with a controversial immigration policy and its social consequences. The novel's eponymous film version (translated into English) is directed by Laurent Cantet,…    
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Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 3/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.27" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Linda Asher, a former fiction editor for "The New Yorker" has translated into English many French-language writers, including Restif de la Bretonne, Victor Hugo, George Simenon & Milan Kundera.