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A wife for my son

By:

Ghalem, Ali

Contributor(s):

Kazolias, G (Translator)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Jersey Africa World Press 1984Description: 211p., pbkISBN:

865431167

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

323.34 GHA

Summary: Fatiha and Hocine come from nice families, who only want the best for them. So things are arranged, then the kids informed. Fatiha’s mother takes her to an old woman who strips away her pubic hair, and invites in a midwife who slyly pokes her vagina for a virginity test. Hocine’s father sends a telegram to a Paris suburb, where Hocine lives with several fellow Algerians in a coffin-like room. Hocine heads back to a world he knows as one of doting mothers and drinking buddies, soon to be a husband. What ought to be the beginning of happily-ever-after becomes a journey into the special hell reserved for the young in societies bearing the burdens of late capitalism without its rewards.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Gratis Resources	Plaksha University Library	Social Science	323.34 GHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G000321

Fatiha and Hocine come from nice families, who only want the best for them. So things are arranged, then the kids informed. Fatiha’s mother takes her to an old woman who strips away her pubic hair, and invites in a midwife who slyly pokes her vagina for a virginity test. Hocine’s father sends a telegram to a Paris suburb, where Hocine lives with several fellow Algerians in a coffin-like room. Hocine heads back to a world he knows as one of doting mothers and drinking buddies, soon to be a husband. What ought to be the beginning of happily-ever-after becomes a journey into the special hell reserved for the young in societies bearing the burdens of late capitalism without its rewards.

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