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Daas, Fatima, 1995-
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Lesbians -- Fiction.
Muslim women -- Fiction.
Algeria -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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Daas, Fatima, 1995-
Lesbians -- Fiction.
Muslim women -- Fiction.
Algeria -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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The
last
one
/ Fatima Daas ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.
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Daas, Fatima, 1995-
Other Press, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION DAA
Subjects
Lesbians -- Fiction.
Muslim women -- Fiction.
Algeria -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781635421842 (pbk.)
Description:
193 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in French as La petite derniere in 2020 by Les editions Noir sur Blanc, Paris and Lausanne.
Summary:
"Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity-French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian. The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo, and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on public transportation to and from the city, where she feels like a tourist observing Parisian manners. She goes from unstable student to maladjusted adult, doing four years of therapy -- her longest relationship. But as she gains distance from her family and comes into her own, she grapples more directly with her attraction to women and how it fits with her religion, which she continues to practice. When Nina comes into her life, she doesn't know exactly what she needs but feels that something crucial has been missing. This extraordinary first novel, anchored and buoyed by the refrain "My name is Fatima," is a vital portrait of a young woman finding herself in a modern world full of contradictions. Daas's journey to living her sexuality in spite of expectations about who she should be offers a powerful perspective on the queer experience"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Novels in verse.
Bildungsromans.
First novel.
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