Overview
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.
- | Author: Lynda Chouiten
- | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 00148 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813952573
- | ISBN-13: 9780813952574
