Quitter Dakar (B1) (Mondes en VF)

Quitter Dakar (B1) - Sophie-Anne Delhomme

Open to all horizons of the Francophonie, the Mondes en VF collection bears witness to literature in touch with the realities of today's world. Personal perspectives - funny, tender or bitter - on our changing worlds, the stories in this collection are all doors to the pleasure of reading in French.

Complete audio recordings are available to download for free on the collection's website http://www.mondesenvf.fr, as well as additional teaching ideas, introductory sheets to facilitate writing workshops in French as a foreign language, resources for vocabulary, information on literary genres, literature by country, resources on specific themes and biographies of the authors to help with study of the texts in the classroom.

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Several years after the death of his mother, a young Frenchman returns to Dakar, the city of his childhood. Manuela, his mother, was an elusive woman, alternately tender and careless, distant and seductive. She loved Dakar passionately and in this city a man who made her unhappy. To return to Dakar after her death is to try to reconnect with childhood, to try to give meaning to his life. But does tracing the footsteps of the past make it possible to fall in love with Dakar again?