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- ISBN 9780813952567
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2025
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A prize-winning novel from one of Algeria’s rising literary stars
In A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten depicts an irreverent and creative woman with an artistic temperament navigating the stiflingly conservative society in which she was raised. The narrative follows the path of Chahira, a seamstress from El Moudja—a fictional small coastal town in the Kabyle region of Algeria—to an international design competition in Vienna. Along the way, A Waltz expresses the strain of competing value systems, regional identities and expectations, and a cacophony of voices bearing down upon one woman while asking challenging questions about the nature of madness, confinement, and resistance to a patriarchal world.
In A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten depicts an irreverent and creative woman with an artistic temperament navigating the stiflingly conservative society in which she was raised. The narrative follows the path of Chahira, a seamstress from El Moudja—a fictional small coastal town in the Kabyle region of Algeria—to an international design competition in Vienna. Along the way, A Waltz expresses the strain of competing value systems, regional identities and expectations, and a cacophony of voices bearing down upon one woman while asking challenging questions about the nature of madness, confinement, and resistance to a patriarchal world.
Lynda Chouiten is an Algerian writer and academic and the winner of the 2019 Grand Prix Assia Djebar.
Skyler Artes is the translator of Arabic as a Secret Song by LeÏla Sebbar and I Die by This Country by Fawzia Zouari.
Skyler Artes is the translator of Arabic as a Secret Song by LeÏla Sebbar and I Die by This Country by Fawzia Zouari.
