A Waltz Chouiten Artes Mortimer Hardback MP–VIR Uni of Virginia 9780813952567

A WaltzAuthor(s): Lynda Chouiten, Skyler Artes, Mildred Mortimer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813952567, 978-0813952567\nSynopsis\nA prize-winning novel from one of Algerias rising literary stars\n\n In A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten depicts an irreverent and creative woman with an artistic temperament navigating the stiflingly conservative society in which she was raised. The narrative follows the path of Chahira, a seamstress from El Moudjaa fictional small coastal town in the Kabyle region of Algeriato an international design competition in Vienna. Along the way, A Waltz expresses the strain of competing value systems, regional identities and expectations, and a cacophony of voices bearing down upon one woman while asking challenging questions about the nature of madness, confinement, and resistance to a patriarchal world.