Abdellah Taia
From: Sunday, September 27th at 3:00 PM
To: Sunday, September 27th at 5:00 PM
Location:East End Book Exchange
Salvation Army is a coming-of-age novel that narrates the story of Taïas life with complete disclosure from a childhood bound by family order and latent (homo)sexual tensions in the poor city of Salé, through an adolescence in Tangier charged by the young writers attraction to his eldest brother, to his disappointing arrival in the Western world to study in Geneva in adulthood and in so doing manages to burn through the authors first-person singularity to embody the complex mélange of fear and desire projected by Arabs on Western culture, and move towards restituting their alterity.