Salvation Army

An autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the the "only gay man" in Morocco.

An autobiographical novel by turn naïve and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taïa is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. Salvation Army is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure — from a childhood bound by family order and latent (homo)sexual tensi…