A Waltz (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813952567)

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.

Author: Lynda Chouiten
ISBN-10: 0813952565
ISBN-13: 9780813952567
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2025
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d