Il N'Y A Pas D'Exil

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Il N'Y A Pas D'Exil

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The story follows a woman, who remains anonymous the entire time, and her family and friend in Tunisia where they reside because they are refugees from the war that is currently being fought in their home of Algeria. The women in the story are expected to be completely obedient and always at the service of the men. While some of the women comply to this social pressure, other don't especially the narrator and her neighbor Hafa. In the beginning of the story their neighbors son dies after being hit by a car. Later in the story, death is brought up again when the subject of war arises. Hafa mentions she has never seen a dead body before. In the story, three women come to house with the desire to set the narrator up with a husband. She strongly refuses and says she has other desires in life, different from a lot of the women she knows. Throughout the book, there is a window that she often stares out of and open and closes, it connects her to the outside world where most of her aspirations and opinions are. Near the end, Hafa has a conversation with the narrators dad in which he says "there is no exile". At the very end Hafa and the narrator discuss the other women and how they are being exiled and do nothing to stop it. They talk about how they do not want it for themselves, and want more of their lives. Themes: feminism, exile, religion, refugees, loneliness, death
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