by Amin Zaoui · Les Editions du Rocher/Serpent à Plumes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782842611576
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«La Soumission» is the novel by Amin Zaoui, published by Les Editions du Rocher/Serpent à Plumes in paperback (152 pages, in French).
Set in a stifling home in the Oran region of Algeria, the novel shows the violence of traditional submission: women must obey their husbands and children their parents. Hidden desires, kept like embers under the poetry of Quranic verses, end up attracting death and announcing catastrophe.
The work is subtitled «roman» and is part of the Motifs collection, where it occupies number 122.
For readers interested in French-language narrative set in Algeria and in family dramas with social tension.
Amin Zaoui is an Algerian novelist. He was born in Bab el Assa in Tlemcen province and studied at the University of Oran, obtaining a PhD in comparative literature. He moved to France during the Algerian civil war, but returned home in 1999. He has served as the Director General of the National Library of Algeria, and currently teaches comparative literature at the Central Algerian University.
