{"product_id":"an-arab-melancholia","title":"An Arab Melancholia","description":"\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSalé, near Rabat. The mid 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running until he’s out of breath. He’s running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. He’s running after the Egyptian movie star, Souad Hosni, who’s out there somewhere, miles away from this neighborhood—which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which he is not at home, an environment that will only allow him his identity through the cultural lens of shame and silence. Running is the only way he can stand up to the violence that is his Morocco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIrresistibly charming, angry, and wry, this autobiographical novel traces the emergence of Abdellah Taïa’s identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures. The book spans twenty years, moving from Salé, to Paris, to Cairo. Part incantation, part polemic, and part love letter, this extraordinary novel creates a new world where the self is effaced by desire and love, and writing is always an act of discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e Published: USA, 2012\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Autonomedia\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144\u003cbr\u003eLanguages: English \u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781584351115\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 158435111X\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Abdellah Taia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43684027859210,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/Screenshot2022-08-19at13-57-249781584351115_JPEGImage300x450pixels.png?v=1660910422","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/an-arab-melancholia","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}