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Endless Fall - A Little Chronicle

English · Paperback / Softback

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In this poignant account of a classmate’s suicide, the acclaimed Moroccan author gives both a biting critique of small-town bigotry in the 1960s and a moving tribute to the fleeting beauty of adolescence. In Settat in the 1960s, when it was still a tiny village, a young man leapt to his death in front of his stunned class and their teacher, left holding a brief, devastating suicide note. Among the students was Mohamed Leftah. Haunted by the uncommon grace of that desperate act, and the tragic image of his body lying in the courtyard, Leftah penned this chronicle of life at the time, marked by repressed desire and shame. A fiery yet thoughtful meditation on taboo acts--homosexuality, adultery, suicide--and the hypocrisy and cruelty often found in those who judge them,

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Mohamed Leftah

Product details

Authors Mohamed Leftah, Eleni Sikelianos
Publisher Other press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 18.06.2024
 
EAN 9781635423020
ISBN 978-1-63542-302-0
No. of pages 80
Dimensions 127 mm x 190 mm x 7 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology

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