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Title: Country for Dying, A
Author: TAIA ABDELLAH
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by \”one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature\”*
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.
ISBN: 9781609809904
Pages: 112