El Nadal novel award 2021 supposes the definitive recognition as narrator of a Najat El Hashmi that makes literature that transmission belt of the sociological and the chronistic to always transfer relevant notions about the underground of the moral changes capable of pointing towards new horizons.
In the staging of his characters, El Hachmi is capable of living the deepest mimicry of the search for the site, of the vindication of the advance against immobility.
«There are compelling reasons that lead me to write about us: we did not know it then, but we were conquering new territories unthinkable for our mothers - we were tearing all the veils, digging holes with flimsy spoons in impenetrable walls, and we did not even realize it. . »
Monday they will love us tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who wants to find freedom to find out what will make her happy. But the conditions from which it starts are complicated. You live in an oppressive environment from which it will not be easy for you to get out without paying too high a price.
It all starts the day he meets a girl whose parents live their cultural condition without the ties of the rest of their community, and who embodies what she craves. Her new friend faces the first challenges that life presents her as a woman with a vitality, enthusiasm and determination that will fascinate her and encourage her to follow in his footsteps.
An exciting and revealing story about the importance of women being the protagonists of their own lives, even if they have to face conditions of gender, social class and origin. This is the story of the arduous road to freedom.
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