Description
In a voice as raw as it is lucid, this novel follows Yalaan Waldik, an “Arabo” living in “Mother France,” whose ambition is to give language and memory to the lives of North Africans ground down by dehumanization and neglect. As he moves through the margins of French society, his attempt to write becomes both a personal reckoning and a wider indictment of how a nation of “Lumières” can fail those it absorbs. Blending fractured, poignant prose with a sharp, socially charged perspective, the book explores exile, identity, and the struggle to reclaim humanity through storytelling. Driss Chraïbi’s distinctive style—direct, unsparing, and emotionally forceful—turns everyday degradation into a powerful meditation on dignity and resistance.
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paperback
Three Continents Press
Published Jan 1, 1983
123 pages
ISBN: 0894103253
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First Published
1983
Language
eng
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