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Taïa, Abdellah, 1973-
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Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Transgender people -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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Taïa, Abdellah, 1973-
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Transgender people -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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A country for dying : a novel /
Abdellah
Taïa
; translated by Emma Ramadan.
by
Taïa
,
Abdellah
,
1973-
Seven Stories Press, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION TAI
Subjects
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Transgender people -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781609809904 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Pays
pour
mourir
.
English
Description:
136 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
Genre:
Literary fiction.
Other authors:
Ramadan, Emma.
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