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14 Best French-language novels (excluding France)

The Modern Novel home page » My Lists home page » 14 Best French-language novels (excluding France)

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Olympe Bhêly-Quenum: Un piège sans fin (Snares without End)
Marie-Claire Blais: Visions d’Anna (Anna’s World)
Rachid Boudjedra: الزقاق معركة (La Prise de Gibraltar) [The Capture of Gibraltar]
Patrick Chamoiseau: Texaco
Maryse Condé: Ségou (Segu)
Mohammed Dib: Cours sur la rive sauvage [A Walk on the Wild Side]
Tahar Djaout: L’invention du désert [The Invention of the Desert]
Gilbert Gatore: Le passé devant soi [The Past In Front of You]
Déwé Gorodé: L’épave [The Wreck]
Ahmadou Kourouma: En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals)
Agota Kristof: Le grand cahier (The Notebook) Trilogy
Camara Laye: Le regard du roi (The Radiance of the King)
Ousmane Sembène: Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (God’s Bits of Wood)
Kateb Yacine: Nedjma (Nedjma)

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