Abdellah Taia, Author, Frank Stock, Translator, Edmund White, Introduction by , trans. from the French by Frank Stock. MIT $14.95 (143p) ISBN 978-1-58435-070-5
Taïa's slim and disjointed autobiographical coming-of-age story begins in poverty in Salé, Morocco, where young Abdellah reports on the impoverished town's doings. As a young adult, he falls for an older man who introduces him...
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Abdellah Taïa, trans. from the French by Emma Ramadan. Seven Stories, $16.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-60980-990-4
Immigrants in Paris seek political, economic, and sexual refuge in Taïa’s heart-wrenching tale of postcolonial identity crisis (after Infidels). Zahira, a 45-year-old prostitute, is haunted by memories of her father’s suicide in Morocco when she was
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Abdellah Taia, trans. from the French by Emma Ramadan. Seven Stories, $18.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-64421-453-4
An illiterate woman from the Moroccan countryside recounts her life in Taia’s hypnotic and masterful latest (after A Country for Dying). The novel opens in the 1950s with the narrator, 17-year-old Malika, falling in love with Allal, a man with a...
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