Bøger af Fatima Daas

Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, this is a portrait of a young woman finding herself in a modern world full of contradictions. Daas's journey to living her sexuality in spite of expectations about who she should be offers a powerful perspective on the queer experience.

Mennesker som hende eksisterede ikke i romanerne. Men så skrev hun selv en. Fatima Daas udforsker i sin medieomtalte debutroman sine indbyrdes modstridende identiteter som lesbisk muslimsk kvinde med indvandrerbaggrund. Gennem små erindringsfragmenter skrevet i en gentagende, rytmisk stil lærer vi den unge Fatima at kende. Hun fortæller om at vokse op som yngste datter i en traditionel indvandrerfamilie, om oplevelser af racisme, om at springe ud som lesbisk, når man er troende muslim. Romanen er blevet kaldt autofiktion 2.0, fordi den ikke forsøger at forene modsætningerne i det liv, der skildres, men snarere lader dem stå, som det de er."En syngende smuk debut om skam og forelskelse, tro og sammensatte identiteter." Politiken, 5 hjerter

Mennesker som hende eksisterede ikke i romanerne. Men så skrev hun selv en.Fatima Daas udforsker i sin medieomtalte debutroman sine indbyrdes modstridende identiteter som lesbisk muslimsk kvinde med indvandrerbaggrund. Gennem små erindringsfragmenter skrevet i en gentagende, rytmisk stil, der minder om rap – eller koranens bønner – lærer vi den unge jegfortæller Fatima at kende. Hun fortæller om at vokse op som yngste datter i en traditionel indvandrerfamilie, hvor følelser og ømhed er tabu, om oplevelser af racisme i et patriarkalsk og islamofobisk samfund, om at springe ud som lesbisk, når man er troende muslim. Romanen er blevet kaldt autofiktion 2.0, fordi den ikke forsøger at forene modsætningerne i det liv, der skildres, men snarere lader dem stå, som det de er.

PEN Translation Prize LonglistBustle: Best Book of the Month Library Journal: Best Debut Novel of the Season Lambda Literary: Most Anticipated Book of the Month Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity-French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian.The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo, and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on public transportation to and from the city, where she feels like a tourist observing Parisian manners. She goes from unstable student to maladjusted adult, doing four years of therapy-her longest relationship. But as she gains distance from her family and comes into her own, she grapples more directly with her attraction to women and how it fits with her religion, which she continues to practice. When Nina comes into her life, she doesn't know exactly what she needs but feels that something crucial has been missing. This extraordinary first novel, anchored and buoyed by the refrain "My name is Fatima," is a vital portrait of a young woman finding herself in a modern world full of contradictions. Daas's journey to living her sexuality in spite of expectations about who she should be offers a powerful perspective on the queer experience.