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Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other
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Um jovem condutor de riquixá tem sua bicicleta furtada e fica endividado com a mulher que a alugava. Ela o manda para Poet, um gângster e cafetão calada, que por sua vez faz com que ele cometa atos de vandalismo e pequenos furtos para pagar sua dívida. Ele não sabe que Poet também persuadiu sua irmã a trabalhar como prostituta, atendendo clientes ricos que pagam em dólares americanos. Os dois irmãos são levados à corrupção sob o controle do mesmo homem.
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A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
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Every Saturday, to the great despair of his wife, Emmanuel finds his daughter Elise, fruit of a first union. A demanding and excessive father in his passions, he went to lay a loving trap for Elise.
