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Title: Tea in the Harem by Mehdi Charef, Ed Emery, Charef Mehdi ISBN: 1-85242-151-7 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Pub. Date: January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beur Literature
Comment: I read this book after I read "Lila Says" by Chimo. These books are both similar in setting. It was a depressing but accurate description of life in the arab populated Paris ghettos. The value of life, the dead end feeling, and the chaos and feeling of hopelessness was depicted like I have never read before. The characters seemed real and the surroundings were easy to picture, very vivid. And you felt for everyone in the book especially the families who came to France for a better life and received something far worse- destruction of their culture, detrioration of their children, rascism, and the feeling of leaving a whole familiar world behind and being trapped in a concrete world. more than enyting it also has french characters too that are within the same situation. It is very much telling of the immigrant experience anywhere for arabs- they leave an opressive regime where they are poor and want better and think they are going to have an incredible life some where else, so they leave their country, their language, and their family behind in search. what they find is a world in repulsion with theirs where they are very different and it is hard to survive and with this everything they know is gone and their children are different from they are and feel even more disconnected from their surroundings and their parents world. Well written.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'll have tea in this harem any time.
Comment: Tea in the Harem is an excellent account of life in the slums of Paris. It is at times disturbingly real and deals with Foreigners trying to make a go of it in the mean streets of France. I liked it because it reveals another side of Paris; a bleak, dirty, and dangerous side not often dealt with in books and movies. Anyone who has an interest in racial conflict and poverty will find this book enlightening. If you like tea, and you like harems, then you'll love Tea in the Harem.
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Title: A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France by Emilie Carles, Robert Destanque, Avriel H. Goldberger ISBN: 0140169652 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch, Gerard Hopkins, Georges Altman ISBN: 0393319113 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Peter Schneider, Leigh Hafrey ISBN: 0226739414 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Europe Since 1945: A Concise History by J. Robert Wegs, J. Robert Webs ISBN: 0312084366 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $44.75 |
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Title: Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Douglas Parmee ISBN: 0140443150 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1975 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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