by Najat El Hachmi · Estrella Polar · tapa dura · ISBN 9788413891798
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Nur, a 12-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrant parents, is selected to study at the best high school in Barcelona thanks to a scholarship. Despite her initial joy, she doesn't want to be away from her cousin and best friend, Aixa. At school, Nur faces a different world where she discovers inequalities and rejection, feeling different for the first time. This experience leads her to confront racism and build her own identity between two cultures and between childhood and youth.
Najat El Hachmi narrates in this youth novel the life of a teenager of foreign origin in a high school, addressing issues such as identity, racism and feminism with a language adapted for young readers. The author, recognized in the Catalan and state level, has been awarded for her novels L'últim patriarca and El lunes nos querrán.
Najat El Hachmi is a Moroccan-Spanish writer based in Catalonia. She holds a degree in Arabic Studies from the University of Barcelona. She is the author of a personal essay on her bicultural identity, and three previous novels, the first of which earned her the 2008 Ramon Llull Prize, the 2009 Prix Ulysse, and was a finalist for the 2009 Prix Méditerranée Étranger.
