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A country for dying : a novel / Abdellah Taïa ; translated by Emma Ramadan.
Van Pelt Library PQ3989.2.T27 P3913 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taïa, Abdellah, 1973- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Pays pour mourir. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitutes--Fiction.
- Prostitutes.
- Male-to-female transsexuals.
- Trans women--Fiction.
- Trans women.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Paris (France)--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Romance fiction.
- Transgender fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 136 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "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 for himself as a woman. Motjaba is an Iranian revolutionary, a refugee in Paris, a gay man fleeing his country at the end of his rope, who finds refuge for a few days with Zahira. And then there is Allal, Zahira's first love, who comes to Paris years later to save their love. The world of A Country for Dying is a world of dreamers, of lovers, for whom the price of dreaming is one they must pay with their flesh. Writes Taïa, "So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- ISBN:
- 9781609809904
- 1609809904
- OCLC:
- 1114282699
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