"Autobiographical fiction" . . "Marokko." . . "Marroquíes en Francia Novelas." . . . . . . "Une mélancolie arabe : roman" . . "Arabische melancholie" . . "Malenkolia arabiar bat" . . . "Autobiographical fiction"@en . . . . "Malenkonia arabiar bat" . . . . "Salé, near Rabat. The mid 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running after his dream to become a movie director. Running is the only way he can stand up to the violence that is his Morocco. This autobiographical novel traces the emergence of Taïa's identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures, creating a new world where the self is effaced by desire and love, and writing is always an act of discovery."@en . "Una melancolía árabe"@es . "Una melancolía árabe" . . . . . . . . "An Arab melancholia : a novel"@en . "An Arab melancholia : a novel" . . . . . . "An Arab Melancholia Semiotexte" . . . . . . . . "Una malenconia àrab" . "Una malenconia àrab"@ca . . "I had to rediscover who I was. And that's why I left the apartment ... And there I was, right in the heart of the Arab world, a world that never tired of making the same mistakes over and over ... I had no more leniency when it came to the Arab world ... None for the Arabs and none for myself. I suddenly saw things with merciless lucidity ... -- An Arab Melancholia."@en . . . . "Roman construit sur l'autobiographie de l'auteur, issu d'une famille pauvre marocaine, que l'homosexualité et le goût de la culture vont pousser à voyager et entamer une carrière artistique. Le récit sincère et courageux d'un jeune Arabe qui assume son homosexualité sans renier son origine et sa religion." . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . "Littérature marocaine de langue française." . . . . "Narrativa." . . "Morocco" . .