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The New Internationals

A stunning historical novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history

Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the war, is brimming with young international students—African, Indochinese, Arab, as well as American and French—balancing on the precipice of a new world. Cecile Rosenbaum, a young Jewish girl quickly developing her own intellectual and political ideals, meets Minette—a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent—on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There, she meets and begins to fall in love with Seb, who arrived from West Africa with his sister at just seven years old.

As Seb toils for the exams that will permit him to study French architecture at the Parisian university Beaux-Arts, he also begins to dig into his roots in Dahomey, the West African kingdom where he came from. Cecile struggles at her job at the Louvre, clashes with her white, Jewish family, and reckons with her memories of a childhood under Nazi occupation and her fierce dedication to her new political ideologies. Seb and Cecile find themselves entangled, and along the course of the novel they lose and find each other again—in the corners of jazz clubs, at a Louis Armstrong concert, in the square where Seb’s exam scores will be posted, and, finally, at a protest that turns shockingly violent.

Nuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, The New Internationals is a brilliant work of historical fiction that celebrates the awakening of the post-colonial movements of the 20th century and international youth population in Paris who rose up—and came together—in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment.

“Faladé draws out the psychological pressures faced by his characters … [and] unflinchingly portrays the messy legacy of colonialism and the implications of crossing the color line. This nuanced historical is worth a look.”—Publishers Weekly

Audioboek

  • Gepubliceerd: 18-2-2025

  • Taal: Engels

  • Uitgever: Recorded Books

  • ISBN: 9798895943748


Auteur:

  • David Wright Faladé

Verteller:

  • Jasmin Walker

Formaat:

  • Audioboek

Duurtijd:

  • 10 u 19 min

Taal:

Engels

Categorieën:

  • Historische en volksverhalen
  • Historische romans

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