Street of Thieves
Mathias Énard's novel of a young Moroccan man adrift in Spain during the Arab Spring, translated by Charlotte Mandell and published by Open Letter in 2014.
Street of Thieves, published in French in 2012 as Rue des voleurs, follows a young Moroccan man wandering around Spain during the Arab Spring and the anti-austerity movement. Open Library’s summary describes Lakhdar, exiled from his family and hiding on the streets of Barcelona from both the police and a Muslim group he once worked for in Tangier. At the 2012 Beirut Francophone Book Fair it received the Liste Goncourt: Le choix de l’Orient prize.
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