A Waltz

<p><strong>A prize-winning novel from one of Algeria's rising literary stars</strong>. In <em>A Waltz</em> 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 Moudja--a fictional small coastal town in the Kabyle region of Algeria--to an international design competition in Vienna. Along the way <em>A Waltz</em> 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.</p>