Fatima Daas’s The Last One is an autobiographical novel that presents an original and complex exploration of identity. A portrait of the protagonist, also called Fatima Daas, emerges through a series of vignettes that jump across time but take us ultimately from her childhood to her twenty-ninth birthday. We learn that Fatima was born in the Parisian banlieues to Algerian parents, that she is the ‘mazoziya’ (the youngest daughter or ‘last one’ in Algerian Arabic)…

Read the full article in Wasafiri issue 111 ‘Translating Lives.’ Available online here.