One-Way

The Foundling (French original: Un aller simple ( " one way ticket " ) ) is a novel by Didier van Cauwelaert from the year 1994 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt. .

Action

Aziz, who in Marseille with Gypsies, Roma presumably, growing up is a foundling. His foster father has pushed his biological parents with the car and so they are killed in a " car accident " killed. Aziz, named after the Citroën Ami 6, in which he was found, is considered by the gypsies as a sign from heaven. Mamita and Vasile take it therefore as foster parents on, but it never succeeds as a "non - Gypsy" full integration into the group. Aziz arbitrarily chosen last name is Kemal. For pragmatic reasons, Aziz has Moroccan citizenship, as a fake pass this nation is significantly cheaper than a French. He is leaner than other children and playing soccer, he takes most of the task of the referee, because he can not decide which team he will play. Aziz sympathizes on the one hand because of his citizenship with the Arabs, on the other hand with the gypsies, as these his "family" pose.

At age nine, he begins to stand grease on dips. At age eleven, Aziz breaks out of school, even though he was very fond of this, and specializes in the theft of car radios. The first radio stolen he sends his former geography teacher by post, intended as much for the wonderful time that Aziz was able to spend with him in school. The teacher gave Aziz a previously filled with local legends Atlas of the World. With 19 years Aziz is arrested at his engagement party and will be deported to his putative homeland Morocco. A jeweler accuses him of having stolen the engagement ring. Aziz has this but actually bought, but can give no account, because otherwise he does not buy things, but only steals. Since Aziz looks good, an example of media is at it statuiert. The committee will be a " social worker " to: Jean- Pierre Schneider to support him, to integrate into Moroccan society, so that the French company is convinced that it is a humane deportation. Jean- Pierre Schneider, however, is busy with his own problems. His boss has enabled him to Marseilles, so that he can get down to Jean- Pierre's wife. Aziz was born after his passport in Irghiz, a fictitious village, which is located after Aziz's statement in the High Atlas Mountains. He tells his integration officer that he was the only one to have ever left the village and he had a mandate to save his village. He has from the Atlas of the legends of his geography teacher this story. In Morocco arrived, the two a pretty, young woman, Valérie d' Armeray de Villeneuve, a former tour guide, as a tour guide looking out. During the trip, makes Schneider notes to write a book about Aziz and thus to fulfill his lifelong dream. He also hopes to that he can win back his wife if he is successful in his novel. Valérie seduced first Aziz and finally Jean -Pierre. It shows both the natural beauty of Morocco and knows how to handle both. It is the perfect counterpart to Aziz and Jean -Pierre because she knows what she wants and leads an orderly life. She tells Jean -Pierre shortly before his death that Irghiz not exist. This died soon afterwards in an untreated illness. Aziz feels called to write Jean- Pierre's book to the end and used the notes. He brings Jean- Pierre's corpse and the book to his parents to Lorraine. This tells Aziz that her son had been killed in a kidnapping. Parents are Aziz grateful and accept him as their new son with her on. Aziz lives the life of Jean -Pierre Schneider.