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24-year-old Ahlème (her name means 'dream' in Arabic) lives with her father, The Boss. He is half the man he was, since an accident on his building site stopped him working. Then there's Ahlème's brother, 16-year-old Foued, excluded from school and getting drawn into the world of drug-dealing on Uprising Estate. Ahlème battles with her family, the struggles and queues that come with being an immigrant, and the guilt-trips of distant relatives 'back home'. But when she returns - after a ten-year absence - to the country where her mother was massacred at a village wedding, she brokers a kind of truce, both with her homeland, and with the need to forge a future. Along the way, she stamps on that mythical version of Metropolitan France, a desperate fabrication put out by economic and political migrants and readily bought into by those left behind in Algeria.
Dreams from the Endz is an extraordinary achievement: outspoken and sobering but - crucially - laced with the author's hallmark wit. Faiza Guene illuminates the impact of politics on everyday lives, acting as the nation's eyes and ears in places many would never dare to go, weaving unforgettable tales across barriers.
Dreams from the Endz is an extraordinary achievement: outspoken and sobering but - crucially - laced with the author's hallmark wit. Faiza Guene illuminates the impact of politics on everyday lives, acting as the nation's eyes and ears in places many would never dare to go, weaving unforgettable tales across barriers.
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'With an astute eye for detail and a wonderfully humorous acerbic tongue...Guene interweaves political commentary skilfully with daily routine'
-- The Socialist Review
`Fiction of the Week, ***** ... Alheme's story gives a voice to people who are more frequently merely voiceless statistics' -- The Metro
`extraordinary ... witty and engaging'
-- Aesthetica
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-- The Socialist Review
`Fiction of the Week, ***** ... Alheme's story gives a voice to people who are more frequently merely voiceless statistics' -- The Metro
`extraordinary ... witty and engaging'
-- Aesthetica
One of the brightest young voices in France today offers a prescient take on multiculturalism and what it means to live in a society where everything depends on the colour of your passport. Wise, sassy and always humorous, Dreams from the Endz straddles the banlieue, Paris and Algeria, and explores what happens to people when a lid is put on their dreams.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0701181540
- ISBN 13 9780701181543
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Narrated by a young and spirited Muslim woman, this much-acclaimed novel moves from tough Parisian suburbs to Algeria, giving a voice to people whose dreams are crushed in the deprived banlieues of multicultural Europe. Translated by Sarah Ardizzone. Seller Inventory # 514610
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