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"With irony and poignant teenage idealism, Butterfly draws us into her world of adult hypocrisy, sibling rivalries, girlfriends' power plays, unrequited love...not to mention the political tension of life under occupation. As she observes her fragile environment with all its conflicts, Butterfly is compelled to question everything around her. Is her father a collaborator for the occupiers? Will Nizar ever give her the sign she's waiting for? How will...
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Farah, eighteen years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. She doesn't think the same way. She sings in a political rock band. She has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers too well.
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Set against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war in Beirut, Faten tells the story of a young teenager set on excelling at school who has her normal life disrupted by the war. Forced to leave her village to work as a maid in Beirut, she faces many difficult situations but she overcomes them with her wit, ambition and the aid of a few supportive friends.
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"College-aged Guène was raised by Algerian immigrant parents in a Parisian housing project; in her debut novel, 15-year-old Doria and her illiterate mother, having been abandoned by Doria's alcoholic father, are stuck in a Paris housing project called the Paradise. Dependent on welfare and subjected to the obligatory succession of social workers, the two are determined to face forward, despite Doria's sense of doomed mektoub (destiny), where gradual...
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