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France (French) - 1999 - 118
Barrière, Loïc
Le voyage clandestin
(The illegal journey)

This first novel by the journalist Loïc Barrière takes up the current issues of illegal immigration. A young Algerian boy gets into France with the help of professional smugglers. Naive, determined and brave, he manages to find his way, but finally is caught and put into prison. His situation, representative of many others, gives the reader cause to test his or her own unprejudiced views of »the problem of foreigners.« One also finds a testimony for a genuine Islamic life that differs radically from the fundamentalism that dominates media reports.

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