Cover art for Street of Thieves
Published
Fitzcarraldo, August 2015
ISBN
9780992974763
Format
Softcover, 280 pages
Dimensions
19.7cm × 12.5cm

Street of Thieves

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Recipient of three French literary awards, Mathias Enard's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Zone is a timely novel about a young Moroccan boy caught up in the turbulent events of the Middle East, and a possible murder. Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts, a group he worked for in Tangier not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father.

Lakhdar's transformations-from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner-take place against the backdrop of some of the most important events of the past few years: the violence and exciting eruption of the Arab Spring and the devastating collapse of Europe's economy.

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