{"product_id":"some-dream-for-fools-isbn-9780156032926","title":"Some Dream For Fools","description":"\u003cp\u003eAhlème, a young woman living on the outskirts of Paris, is trying to make a life out of the dreams she brought with her from Algeria and the reality she faces every day. Her father lost his job after an accident at his construction site. Her mother was lost to a massacre in Algeria. And her brother, Foued, boils with adolescent energy and teeters dangerously close to choosing a life of crime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she wanders the streets of Paris looking for work, Ahlème negotiates the disparities between her dreams and her life, her youth and her responsibilities, the expectations of those back home and the limitations of life in France. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the same laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp humor that made \u003ci\u003eKiffe Kiffe Tomorrow \u003c\/i\u003ean international hit, \u003ci\u003eSome Dream for Fools \u003c\/i\u003eshows Faïza Guène’s evolution as a novelist and reminds us of her extraordinary talent as she explores what happens to people when a lid is put on their dreams. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePraise for SOME DREAM FOR FOOLS   \"Super-young, super-cool and fast becoming known as one of the hottest literary talents of multicultural Europe, Guene takes us on a tour of the tough suburbs of Paris and Algeria, where having the wrong-colour passport sentences you to a half-life. A funny, intimate and timely book by one of the stars of tomorrow.\" -- \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e, 50 of the best holiday reads (UK)   \u003cbr\u003ePraise for KIFFE KIFFE TOMORROW   NYTBR Editor's Choice     \"[C]ompelling... reveals Guene to be a promising addition to the world's literary voices.\" -- San Francisco Chronicle  \"Remarkable . . .  a glimpse of life beyond the Paris city limits and into a new, multicultural France . . . Heralded as, alternately, a Gallic version of \u003cem\u003eWhite Teeth, The Catcher in the Rye \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBridget Jones's Diary \u003c\/em\u003e. . . .\" -- \u003cem\u003eSalon    \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889879249125,"sku":"NP9780156032926","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780156032926.jpg?v=1730232099","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/some-dream-for-fools-isbn-9780156032926","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}