Winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt, shosen as one of the Best Books of 2003 by The Seattle Times . One-Way recounts the comic, absurd, and all-too-believable adventures of Aziz Kemal, a young Frenchman raised as an Arab by Marseille gypsies. Arrested for a crime he did not commit, Aziz becomes the target of a government campaign to repatriate illegal immigrants and finds himself en route to Morocco, despite the fact that he is not Moroccan. Accompanying Aziz is a touchingly naïve and neurotic "humanitarian attaché" named Jean-Pierre Schneider, who drowns his own personal woes in his zeal to build a new life for his charge in a land neither one has ever seen.
Author
Didier van Cauwelaert est un romancier et dramaturge français, né d'une famille d'origine belge. Didier van Cauwelaert is a French novelist and playwright with Belgian roots. Well-known French writer Didier van CAUWELAERT has some very big literary successes in his portfolio. From the age of 8 he dreamed of taking up a pen to become independent and feed his family. After devoting several years to theatre, to playing Sartre and directing Beckett, Anouilh, Ionesco, and after a brief career as a children's book critic, a chance meeting with a certain Greta GARBO got his foot in the door. In 1982 he published (at last) his first book “Vingt ans et des poussières” with Editions du Seuil, just after his 22nd birthday. He would reach an ever wider public with every new book. Awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1994 for “Un aller simple” (One way) this voracious writer let his imagination run rife and arrived at the pinnacle of his career. An extraordinary author, Didier van CAUWELAERT has sold over 5 million copies and been translated into 30 different languages. Films have been made of several of his books: “Un aller simple”, “Hors de moi” adapted for film as “Sans identité” and “J’ai perdu Albert” taken from his novel of the same name. His latest work “La bienveillance est une arme absolue” (goodwill is the ultimate weapon) takes the mind to new horizons. The ultimate weapon, a weapon to shock, to create joy, goodwill is the only answer to the moral crisis in which society finds itself. Source : https://wtca-brussels.org/en/classes/...
