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02020aam a22003498i 4500 001 55BAED261DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201103011456 008 190731s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019027770 020 $a 1609809904 020 $a 9781609809904 (softcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ3989.2.T27 $b P3913 2020 082 00 $a 843/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a TaiÌa, Abdellah, $d 1973- $e author. 240 10 $a Pays pour mourir. $l English 245 12 $a A country for dying / $c Abdellah Taia ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York : $b Seven Stories Press, $c 2020. 263 $a 2005 300 $a 136 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Paris, summer of 2010. Zahira is a Moroccan prostitute late in her career whose generosity is her way of defying her humiliation and misery. Her friend Aziz, a male prostitute, admires her and emulates her. Aziz is transitioning from his past as a man into the womanhood of his future, and asks Zahira to help him choose a name for himself as a woman. Motjaba is an Iranian revolutionary, a refugee in Paris, a gay man fleeing his country at the end of his rope, who finds refuge for a few days with Zahira. And then there is Allal, Zahira's first love, who comes to Paris years later to save their love. The world of A Country for Dying is a world of dreamers, of lovers, for whom the price of dreaming is one they must pay with their flesh. Writes TaiÌa, "So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 700 1 $a Ramadan, Emma, $e translator. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025648.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406020241.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210109010440.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201103012922.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=55BAED261DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search