It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future. A Country for Dying is written by Abdellah Taïa and published by Seven Stories Press (RHP). Through swirling, perpendicular narratives, A Country for Dying follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities, a schism of a postcolonial world where, as Taïa writes, "So many people find themselves in the same situation. Meanwhile, Allal, Zahira's first love back in Morocco, travels to Paris to find Zahira. Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who, having fled to Paris, seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan. Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss, including the loss of her pre-transition male persona. : A Country for Dying (9781609809904) by Taia, Abdellah and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great. Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, this book examines how Moroccan author and cineaste Abdellah Taas literary works and public performances. Translated from the French by Amanda DeMarco. Abdellah Taïa Another Way to Love This World In a wrenching dialogue, a man searches for human connection, even as he recalls childhood abuse. An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" The poetic register of A Country for Dying is wrought by an eventfulness triggered by the tiniest things that just keep on echoing generations later: a memory, a song, a stranger. A Moroccan woman living in exile in Paris remembers her father’s dying days.
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