A housing estate in the Paris suburbs. Madjid is growing up caught
between two cultures. At home, he listens to his mother's constant
invective in Arabic as she attempts to make sense of her unfamiliar
surroundings; at school, he tries to be part of French culture, a
culture that rejects and insults Arabs. In a direct language,
punctuated by moments of poetic beauty, Mehdi Charef portrays a
reality only too rarely the subject of fiction. An immediate
success upon publication in France in 1983, Tea in the Harem became
the rallying-point for second-generation Algerians and Moroccans,
who gave themselves the name 'beur': slang for 'Arab'.
General
| Imprint: |
Serpent's Tail
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 1989 |
| First published: |
July 1990 |
| Authors: |
Mehdi Charef
|
| Translators: |
Ed Emery
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
176 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-85242-151-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-85242-151-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781852421519 |
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