As the mainstream notes Omar Sharif Jr.'s [the actor's grandson] coming out as half-Jewish and all gay, literary readers celebrate today's release of An Arab Melancholia. The hotly anticipated novel is the second to appear in English from North African author Abdellah Taïa, "the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco." His debut in translation, Salvation Army,
The new book is 144 pages and Semiotext(e) says:
"Salé, 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 Taïa’s identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures. The book spans twenty years, moving from Salé, 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."
That's the kind of image that i really thing is super image like. If more images very real like this were out there we'd be super full of graet images in the world.
Posted by: not fake | November 03, 2013 at 02:42 PM
At this moment I am going away to do my breakfast, after having my breakfast coming over again to read other news.
Posted by: Demetrius | December 07, 2013 at 12:12 PM