Abdellah Taia

• Apr-2009
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• Mar-2012
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• May-2016
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Set in Salé, Morocco -- the hometown Abdellah Taïa fled but to which he returns again and again in his acclaimed fiction and films -- Infidels follows the life of Jallal, the son of a prostitute witch doctor -- "a woman who knew men, humanity, bett...

• Mar-2017
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Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. -- from Another Morocco

In 2006, Abdellah Taia returned to his native Morocco...

• Oct-2020
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An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature"WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEParis, Summer 2010.Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's...

• Feb-2025
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A story in in praise of a woman, a fighter, a survivor from the award-winning French-Moroccan novelist known for humanizing North Africa’s otherwise marginalized characters -- prostitutes and thieves, trans and gay people in a world where being LGB...