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Genre - Love stories
This novel from a master storyteller is simple, familiar, romantic and tragic. It takes us into the lives of the widow Houria and her young niece Sabiha who run a small Tunisian café in Paris which caters to the North African immigrant workers of the area. Sabiha is a young woman delighted to be living in Paris with her Aunt and sometimes she can barely remember her old life in El Djem. When Australian John Patterner stumbles into their café he embarks on a gentle romance with the beautiful Sabiha. It is their tragic love story that is later confided to his new friend, Ken when they are finally settled in suburban Melbourne many years later.
---- Reviewed by Sue, Belgrave
Genre - Love stories
This novel from a master storyteller is simple, familiar, romantic and tragic. It takes us into the lives of the widow Houria and her young niece Sabiha who run a small Tunisian café in Paris which caters to the North African immigrant workers of the area. Sabiha is a young woman delighted to be living in Paris with her Aunt and sometimes she can barely remember her old life in El Djem. When Australian John Patterner stumbles into their café he embarks on a gentle romance with the beautiful Sabiha. It is their tragic love story that is later confided to his new friend, Ken when they are finally settled in suburban Melbourne many years later.
---- Reviewed by Sue, Belgrave
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