Forbidden Vision (1991)

by Nina Bouraoui

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The startling, best-selling French novel about a young Moslem woman forcibly confined by her repressive and abusive family in Algiers. This first novel, a harrowing journey into the mind of an Algerian teenager who knows of the world only what she sees from her bedroom window, was an immediate sensation upon its publication in France, where it won the prestigious Prix du Livre International.… (more)

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Poignant beyond words...Even if only half of it represents the true plight of Algerian Moslem women - it's still inconceivable; but I suspect that the writer would not be playing fantasy with such a subject. (

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I canguri [Feltrinelli]

Gallimard, Folio (2479)

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The startling, best-selling French novel about a young Moslem woman forcibly confined by her repressive and abusive family in Algiers. This first novel, a harrowing journey into the mind of an Algerian teenager who knows of the world only what she sees from her bedroom window, was an immediate sensation upon its publication in France, where it won the prestigious Prix du Livre International.

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