Books by Nina Bouraoui and Complete Book Reviews
Nina Bouraoui, Author, Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Translator, Jehanne-Marie Gavarini, Translator , trans. from the French by Marjorie Attignol Salvodon and Jehanne-Marie Gavarin Univ. of Nebraska $40 (116p) ISBN 978-0-8032-6259-1
French Algerian novelist Bouraoui explores growing up torn between two identities in this spare, emotionally arduous narrative. The daughter of a blonde, blue-eyed French mother and a well-educated Algerian father, young narrator Nina is deeply...
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Nina Bouraoui, Author, Melissa Marcus, Translator Station Hill Press $9.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-88268-177-1
The imaginative voice of a young, constricted Muslim woman living in Algeria--made clear and intelligible in an excellent translation--makes this debut novel a psychological page-turner. Although the narrator occasionally overheats, her memories and
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