Shantytown Kid

Name: Shantytown Kid
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ISBN: 9780803262584

ISBN-10: 0803262582

ISBN-13: 9780803262584

Edition: 2007

Authors: Azouz Begag, Naima Wolf, Alec G. Hargreaves, Alec G. Hargreaves, Naïma Wolf

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One day an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon gave his son, Azouz Begag, a book, saying, “This book is a bird.” How Begag took flight on the wings of learning is one of the stories that unfolds in this captivating autobiographical novel of growing up amid the multicultural complexities of contemporary France.nbsp; nbsp; Determined to leave behind the poverty of his shantytown life, Begag works to become a star pupil at the local primary school—earning the jealousy and rejection of his Arab playmates even as he contends with the anti-Arab racism of his French peers. Begag’s moving and often comical account of negotiating a path between the competing cultural spaces encountered during…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English