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A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taia; Emma Ramadan (Translator)
Category: History
An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature"Paris, Summer 2010.Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her.Zannouba, Zahira's frie ...Show more
Arab Melancholia by Taia Abdellah
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
I had to rediscover who I was. And that's why I left the apartment...And there I was, right in the heart of the Arab world, a world that never tired of making the same mistakes over and over...I had no more leniency when it came to the Arab world...None for the Arabs and none for myself. I suddenly saw ...Show more
Infidels by Abdellah Taia
Category: Fiction
Set in SalU, Morocco-the hometown Abdellah Ta'a fled but to which he returns again and again in his acclaimed fiction and films-Infidels follows the life of Jallal, the son of a prostitute witch doctor-"a woman who knew men, humanity, better than anyone. In sex. Beyond sex." As a ten-year-old sidekick t ...Show more
Salvation Army by Abdellah Taia
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
An autobiographical novel by turn naive and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taia is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. Salvation Army is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taia's life ...Show more
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