Salvation Army (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
by Abdellah Taļa
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Author: Abdellah TaļaTranslator: Frank Stock
Introduction: Edmund White
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-27
ISBN: 1584350709
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
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Book Review: Exotic and wonderfully naked ...
Summary: 5 Stars
Salvation Army is a coming of age memoir, no doubt, but one made exotic not only for its settings--like Marrakesh, Geneva and Morocco--but by the fact that Abdellah Taļa's first stirrings of love, his earliest pangs of sexual awakenings were for his attractive older brother, Abdelkébir. This should be an uncomfortable situation with a young boy having incestuous feelings like these, but as the first sentence of the introduction by Edmund White says: "This is a novel about love in all its forms."
I couldn't agree more. Abdellah's undefined worship/lust for his older brother was comfortably unrequited (and most likely unnoticed). However that love, the narrator's earliest most secret love, is just one of the love stories depicted in Salvation Army - among them love of family, culture, country and life itself.
I fell in love with this book -- with what it depicted and what it did not -- and with Abdellah Taļa, Morocco's very first openly gay author to publish a memoir, one so real and naked that they both will always dominate that warmest, most exotic corner of my heart. ~ Taylor Siluwé, author of Dancing With The Devil
Summary of Salvation Army (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
An autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the the "only gay man" in Morocco.
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