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The Age of Reinvention: A Novel

af Karine Tuil

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Top Manhattan criminal defense attorney Sam Tahar seems to have it all: fame, fortune, an enviable marriage to a prominent socialite, and two wonderful children. But his success is built on a lie, he isn't the person he pretends to be. Growing up a poor Tunisian immigrant, crammed inside the walls of a grimy Paris apartment tower, Samir Tahar seemed destined for life as either a drug dealer or a delivery man, until he decided he was going to cut through the bars of his social jail cell, even if he had to do it with his teeth. At law school in Montpelier, France, he became fast friends with Jewish student Samuel Baron. The two were inseparable until the irresistible Nina, torn between the men, ultimately chose Samuel. Samir fled to America, where he assumed Samuel's identity and background while his former friend remained stuck in a French suburb, a failed, neurotic writer seething at Samir's overseas triumphs.… (mere)
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I would gladly give this book 5 stars. It took some time to wrap my head around it but once I did, my oh my was i blown away!
It may not be to everybody's liking but for me it's one those books that make you pause to reflect on the message behind a particular scene.
I'm not only enjoying this book, I'm also learning from it!
I'm done yet tho, so the final review is still yet to come ( )
  NG_YbL | Jul 12, 2023 |
Est-ce que le personnage dont il est question dans ce livre a réellement existé ? et sous quel nom ? le livre est troublant, il est nommé comme "roman" alors qu'il semble que l'histoire soit entièrement vraie, avec de nombreux noms de personnages secondaires cités eux aussi. Je n'ai pas aimé la construction de l'histoire, tout ou presque semble exagéré, voire invraisemblable. ( )
  pangee | Mar 2, 2023 |
Samir Tahar, Samuel Baron and Nina (what is her surname?) meet at university in France. All three struggle with their identities and their destinies, and suffer and enjoy dizzying reversals of fortune throughout the novel, built on constructs of the truth (and sometimes downright lies). It is not a book that makes it easy to suspend disbelief - the changes are too vertiginous, the coincidences too implausible, the contrasts too extreme - but it does say interesting things about the immigrant experience in France and the USA; the world of fashion (literary, mostly); security and vulnerability. The prose style is baroque, which I suspect is a deliberate reading of the French original, and can hide what's going on behind a veil of digression.
  otterley | Nov 13, 2016 |
This is a fine example of a clever idea for a novel that fell foul of a deliberately impenetrable prose style that made it take on the proportions of a painful ordeal rather than a n intriguing challenge (which had been my early assessment). I am not sure whether the relentless opacity of the prose is a consequence of a hesitant translation (the novel was written in French) or inadequacies in the original.

The basic premise is certainly alluring enough. Sam Tahar was the son of Tunisian immigrants living in an impoverished suburb of Paris. By dint of hard work, opportunism and the partial theft of a friend’s identity, or at least the crucial elements of his past, has forged a new life for himself as a successful New York lawyer. The friend who had been destined for similar success in still living in Paris, mired in poverty, and more or less living from hand to mouth. Almost predictably their paths are brought back together, with devastating results.

As with so many novels these days, this book would have benefited from being at least one hundred pages shorter. The descriptions are effective – the contrast between Sam Tahar’s current life and the trials of his upbringing are deftly managed – but the plot seemed too laboured ( )
  Eyejaybee | Jun 20, 2016 |
A very interesting novel that incorporates so many themes from today's society - the transient nature of relationships, subtle racism, the desire to racially change oneself. I found this book a little hard to read at times - perhaps due to the translation? - but the last third flew by as the characters experienced dramatic changes. This book is well worth the read, especially because of the social issues it grapples with and the timeliness of the content. ( )
  wagner.sarah35 | May 6, 2016 |
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Top Manhattan criminal defense attorney Sam Tahar seems to have it all: fame, fortune, an enviable marriage to a prominent socialite, and two wonderful children. But his success is built on a lie, he isn't the person he pretends to be. Growing up a poor Tunisian immigrant, crammed inside the walls of a grimy Paris apartment tower, Samir Tahar seemed destined for life as either a drug dealer or a delivery man, until he decided he was going to cut through the bars of his social jail cell, even if he had to do it with his teeth. At law school in Montpelier, France, he became fast friends with Jewish student Samuel Baron. The two were inseparable until the irresistible Nina, torn between the men, ultimately chose Samuel. Samir fled to America, where he assumed Samuel's identity and background while his former friend remained stuck in a French suburb, a failed, neurotic writer seething at Samir's overseas triumphs.

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