A Country For Dying Av Abdellah Taia
Paris, summer of 2010. Zahira is a Moroccan prostitute late in her career whose generosity is her way of defying her humiliation and misery. Her friend Aziz, a male prostitute, admires her and emulates her. Aziz is transitioning from his past as a man into the womanhood of his future, and asks Zahira to help him choose a name......
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<b>An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature"<br><br>WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE</b><br><br>Paris, Summer 2010.<br><br>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.<br>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.<br>Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who, having fled to Paris, seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan.<br>Meanwhile, Allal, Zahira''s first love back in Morocco, travels to Paris to find Zahira.<br><br>Through swirling, perpendicular narratives, <i>A Country for Dying</i> follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities, a schism of a postcolonial world whe
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Produkt
| Produktnavn | A Country For Dying av Abdellah Taia |
| Merke | Other Brand |
| Type | Bøker |
Spesifikasjoner
| Sjanger | Øvrig |
| Format | Heftet |
| Språk | Engelsk |
| Forfatter | Taia, Abdellah |
| Forlag | SEVEN STORIES PRESS, U.S. |
| Utgivelsesdato | 2020-10 |
| Utgivelsesår | 2020 |
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