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A Waltz

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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.
Lynda Chouiten is an Algerian writer and academic and the winner of the 2019 Grand Prix Assia Djebar. Skyler Artes is the translator of Arabic as a Secret Song by LeIla Sebbar and I Die by This Country by Fawzia Zouari.
An important new voice in Algerian literature. . . Une Valse, published in 2019, the year that saw Algeria's hirak - the massive demonstrations throughout the country that led to the fall of president Abdelaziz Boutiflika - captures the mood of the times. Algerians whose dreams of wider horizons and a freer society had been shattered have now opted for change, cautiously optimistic as they embrace their uncertain future." - Journal of North African Studies
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