An Arab Melancholia by Taia, Abdellah
An Arab Melancholia by Taia, Abdellah

An Arab Melancholia

An autobiographical portrait of a gay Arab man, living between cultures, seeking an identity through love and...
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Author: Abdellah Taia
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Language: English
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An Arab Melancholia by Taia, Abdellah

An Arab Melancholia

$37.48
An Arab Melancholia by Taia, Abdellah

An Arab Melancholia

$37.48
Author: Abdellah Taia
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
An autobiographical portrait of a gay Arab man, living between cultures, seeking an identity through love and writing.

I had to rediscover who I was. And that's why I left the apartment.... And there I was, right in the heart of the Arab world, a world that never tired of making the same mistakes over and over.... I had no more leniency when it came to the Arab world... None for the Arabs and none for myself. I suddenly saw things with merciless lucidity....
--An Arab Melancholia

Sal , near Rabat. The mid 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running until he's out of breath. He's running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. He's running after the Egyptian movie star, Souad Hosni, who's out there somewhere, miles away from this neighborhood--which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which he is not at home, an environment that will only allow him his identity through the cultural lens of shame and silence. Running is the only way he can stand up to the violence that is his Morocco.

Irresistibly charming, angry, and wry, this autobiographical novel traces the emergence of Abdellah Ta a's identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures. The book spans twenty years, moving from Sal , to Paris, to Cairo. Part incantation, part polemic, and part love letter, this extraordinary novel creates a new world where the self is effaced by desire and love, and writing is always an act of discovery.



Author: Abdellah Taia
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: 03/09/2012
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781584351115
Audience: Young Adult


Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2012 pg. 43
Publishers Weekly 04/02/2012
Library Journal 08/01/2013 pg. 39

About the Author
Abdellah Taïa (born in 1973) is the author of six novels, including Salvation Army and An Arab Melancholia, both published by Semiotext(e), and Infidels. His novel Le jour du roi, about the death of Morocco's King Hassan II, won the 2010 Prix de Flore. He also directed and wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film adaptation of Salvation Army.
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