'Abdellah Taïa' in OBA Collectie

Charming, angry, and wry, this autobiographical novel traces the emergence of Abdellah Taia's identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures. The book spans twenty years, moving from Sale, to Paris, to Cairo.

In Paris, Abdellah, a young Moroccan student from Salé, pursues his studies of Literature. This city of lights that long fascinated him offers a new face, that of its hard daily reality. Surviving, finding a place without denying its roots, assuming it...

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 attr...

De liefde tussen twee Marokkaanse vrienden wordt op de proef gesteld door een keuze van een van hen.

Short autobiographical stories.