A Country for Dying 20th Century this book paints a vivid

this book paints a vivid picture of the neighborhoods where they congregated while revealing their complex lives

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Jericho Brown provides the introduction for this collection

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A Country for Dying 20th Century this book paints a vividAn exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE Paris, Summer 2010. Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her. Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the