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.
| ISBN: | 9780813952567 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2025 |
| Author: | Lynda Chouiten |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 148 pages |
| Series: | CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French |
| Genres: |
Feminism and feminist theory General Fiction |