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Station Hill Press (1995), Paperback, 144 pages
Description
The startling, best-selling French novel about a young Moslem woman forcibly confined by her repressive and abusive family in Algiers. This first novel, a harrowing journey into the mind of an Algerian teenager who knows of the world only what she sees from her bedroom window, was an immediate sensation upon its publication in France, where it won the prestigious Prix du Livre International.
Awards
Prix Emmanuel Roblès (1991)
Prix du Livre Inter (1991)
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Physical description
144 p.; 8.9 inches
ISBN
088268177X / 9780882681771