Abdellah Taia

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 PRIZE

Paris, Summer 2010. Meer

Three moments in the life of Malika, a Moroccan countrywoman. From 1954 to 1999. From French colonization to the death of King Hassan II. It is her voice we hear in Abdellah Taia's stunning new novel, translated by Emma Ramadan, who won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Taia's last novel, A Country for Dying. Meer