L'armée du salut : roman

Abdellah Taïa

A coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure -- from a childhood bound by family order and latent (homo)sexual tensions in the poor city of Sale, through an adolescence in Tangier charged by the young writer's attraction to his eldest brother, to a disappointing arrival in the Western world to study in Geneva in adulthood.