Taia Abdellah
Taia Abdellah - A Country For Dying - Paperback
Taia Abdellah - A Country For Dying - Paperback
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Description: An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" Winner OF THE 2021 PEN Translation Prize 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 friend and protege formerly known as Aziz prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss including the loss of her pre - transition male persona. Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who having fled to Paris seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan. Meanwhile Allal Zahira's first love back in Morocco travels to Paris to find Zahira. Through swirling perpendicular narratives A Country for Dying follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities a schism of a postcolonial world where as Ta a writes " So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future."
Title: A Country For Dying
Author(s): Taia Abdellah
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781609809904
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" Winner OF THE 2021 PEN Translation Prize 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 friend and protege formerly known as Aziz prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss including the loss of her pre - transition male persona. Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who having fled to Paris seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan. Meanwhile Allal Zahira's first love back in Morocco travels to Paris to find Zahira. Through swirling perpendicular narratives A Country for Dying follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities a schism of a postcolonial world where as Ta a writes " So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future."
Title: A Country For Dying
Author(s): Taia Abdellah
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781609809904
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
