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Tea in the Harem

Tea in the Harem

Charef Mehdi
3.2/5 ( ratings)
A housing estate in the Paris suburbs. Madjid is growing up caught between two cultures. At home, he listens to his mother's constant invective in Arabic as she attempts to make sense of her unfamiliar surroundings; at school, he tries to be part of French culture, a culture that rejects and insults Arabs. In a direct language, punctuated by moments of poetic beauty, Mehdi Charef portrays a reality only too rarely the subject of fiction. An immediate success upon publication in France in 1983, Tea in the Harem became the rallying-point for second-generation Algerians and Moroccans, who gave themselves the name 'beur': slang for 'Arab'.
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Release
September 01, 1989
ISBN
1852421517
ISBN 13
9781852421519

Tea in the Harem

Charef Mehdi
3.2/5 ( ratings)
A housing estate in the Paris suburbs. Madjid is growing up caught between two cultures. At home, he listens to his mother's constant invective in Arabic as she attempts to make sense of her unfamiliar surroundings; at school, he tries to be part of French culture, a culture that rejects and insults Arabs. In a direct language, punctuated by moments of poetic beauty, Mehdi Charef portrays a reality only too rarely the subject of fiction. An immediate success upon publication in France in 1983, Tea in the Harem became the rallying-point for second-generation Algerians and Moroccans, who gave themselves the name 'beur': slang for 'Arab'.
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Release
September 01, 1989
ISBN
1852421517
ISBN 13
9781852421519

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