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
Omar
Bouzid
Hacène
Farid
Zohra
Messaouda
Saïd
Monsieur Grand
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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
Omar
Bouzid
Hacène
Farid
Zohra
Messaouda
Saïd
Monsieur Grand
Movie / 1995
Movie / 2016
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2019
Movie / 2014
Movie / 1999
Movie / 1979
Movie / 1993
Movie / 2021
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2017
Movie / 1994
Movie / 2019
Movie / 2016
Movie / 1980
Movie / 1954
Movie / 1977
Movie / 1997
Movie / 1998
Movie / 2019