Profound Impression and Karine Tuil

Sam Tahar: Though not set in any particular time period, the novel fictionalizes a number of events that have made a profound impression on French society in recent years: riots in poor immigrant suburbs; anti-semitism and the case of a young Jew tortured and killed by a gang of Arab thugs; young jihadists in France; and the sex scandals of Dominique-Strauss Kahn, according to Toronto Star. The story she tells is this: Tahar meteoric ascent to the top of New York legal and corporate elite is built on a lie. With the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, The Age of Reinvention by Karine Tuil is just such a book.A great success in her native France, Tuil ninth novel about a Muslim Arab, Sam Tahar, passing himself off for a Sephardic Jew was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt. The Muslim son of Tunisian immigrants raised in Paris poorest and most notorious highrise suburbs, Samir allows his potential employer, Pierre Lévy, to mistake him for a Sephardic Jew. Once in New York, Samir is taken into the fold by his Jewish partners, going so far as to marry and raise children with Ruth Berg, a prominent Jewish socialite who never questions Samir imposture. Later, when Samir is sent to New York to open a U.S. branch of Lévy law firm, he adopts the life story of his one-time best friend, Samuel Baron, a Jew whose parents were killed in a car accident. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.