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“_______________________________ Fallen for France by Elizabeth Letts is available from Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.”
“Elizabeth and Ali, 1985.”
“Ali’s father tilled tiny ancestral fields using an irrigation system developed during the Roman empire.”
“I imagined Moroccan soldiers who’d served in the French army in World War I.”
“What is it that makes the world of this photo such a foreign country—is it distance, or time?”
“At six thousand feet, we entered a narrow valley, where a ribbon of green laced between tall barren mountains.”
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“The past belongs to no one, and as such, it also belongs to everyone.”
“As I imagined the story, I realized I could draw upon memory—mine, my husband’s, and of the life we had shared.”
“It’s no surprise that eventually a story found me, about a boy, born in the High Atlas, and a horse born in the Sultan’s palace.”
““The past,” one of my characters, Hassan, a Moroccan soldier, says, “is a country you cannot visit except in your mind.” I would argue that the past is not so much foreign as free, free to anyone who is willing to do the work, to enter the past with a spirit of curiosity and a willingness to conjure a living world out of the detritus that history leaves behind.”
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“He’s threshing.”
“Behind him spreads a green valley uncluttered by cars, roads, or electric wires.”
“His parents could not read or write, and spoke only Tamazight (Berber), the indigenous language of Morocco.”