WATCH US DANCE, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

320pp., paperback, First English Language Edition Reprint, London, (2023) 2024

First published in French in 2022 in as Regardez-nous danser.

Sequel to The Country of Others, set in newly independent Morocco in 1968.

'You don't have to have read The Country of Others to appreciate Watch Us Dance: Slimani provides a cast list that fills in the characters' pasts. That said, the experience of this novel is only enhanced by an encounter with its predecessor. We end here with a birth that takes the tale towards the next generation, Slimani's own childhood - and into the final volume of this rich account of how a family's life entwines with history." Telegraph

"A novel that glides along with swan-like grace ... [Slimani] has the novelist's rare skill of being able to nail a life in a single observation . . . quietly devastating on how we are unwittingly, perhaps even helplessly, complicit with history." The Sunday Times

Leïla Slimani is the author of Adèle and Lullaby (winner of the Prix Goncourt). She is President Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1981, she now lives in Paris.