Karosh Taha

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In the Belly of the QueenPaperback, 3 April 2023

In the Belly of the Queen
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Print Length
216 pages
Language
English
Publisher
V&q Books
Date Published
3 Apr 2023
ISBN-10
3863913647
ISBN-13
9783863913649

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Amal shocks the whole neighbourhood by beating up her classmate Younes. Her father defends her behaviour and encourages her to assert herself. From then on everyone avoids Amal - and then her father leaves. Searching in vain for an explanation, Amal finds refuge with Younes and his mother Shahira, both outsiders like her. Years later, when the situation comes to a head and the conflict with Raffiq's gang escalates, Amal flees to Kurdistan to look for her father.

Raffiq's friend Younes is the reluctant centre of attention in their neighbourhood - thanks to his free-spirited mother Shahira, who breaks all the rules. Raffiq thinks about Shahira all the time, at once fascinated and repulsed by her. Unable to bear the situation any longer, Younes plans to leave. When Raffiq's girlfriend Amal also wants to move away, Raffiq's world begins to break apart.

In her kaleidoscopic novel, Karosh Taha expands our ideas of class, race and gender as she loops two stories around an invisible lynchpin: a woman who defies all expectations, a blank canvas for projections from all those around her. Deftly translated by Grashina Gabelmann, the book can be explored from either end, creating two very different narratives.

'This is the tight, urgent style of an author who genuinely has something to say.' Stefanie Roenneke, Neues Deutschland

Product Details

Author:
Karosh Taha
Book Format:
Paperback
Date Published:
3 April 2023
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.17 cm
ISBN-10:
3863913647
ISBN-13:
9783863913649
Language:
English
Pages:
216
Publisher:

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