Samira El Ayachi, from the Atlas peaks to the heart of the mines

Samira El Ayachi publishes "The belly of men" with the Aube editions.

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By: Amélie Beaucour

1 min

Samira El Ayachi comes from the north of France.

This region where the mountains are made of coal, where the "black mouths", these workers who have worn out their arms and their lungs at the bottom of the mines, come from Poland, Italy or even Morocco.

It is their story that the novelist tells in "The belly of men" published by Editions de l'Aube.

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It is under the gray and low sky of the North of France, at the foot of the Coal Mountains, in the unbreathable bowels of the Earth, that

 put down her typewriter.

Where the sun has descended in the hearts of ordinary people, and where we hear the accent of these “black mouths” from other mountains, those of the Atlas, in the South of Morocco.

78,000 of them left their country to come and wear out their arms and lungs in the dust and darkness of the mines.

For a society greedy in energy, which devours the ground, the worker and all his family.

Samira El Ayachi publishes "The belly of men" with the Aube editions.

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