Abdellah Taïa (France/Morocco) at The Vancouver Writers Fest

Abdellah Taïa’s calmly transgressive work has outed him as “the only gay man” in a country whose theocratic law still treats homosexuality as a crime. The persistence of prejudices on all sides of the Mediterranean/Atlantic makes translations of Taïa’s work both literary and political events. Salvation Army is his third novel, but the first to be translated into English.

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