A Country for Dying

An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature"

WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE

Paris, Summer 2010.

Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her.
Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss, including the loss of h...