The Kid from Chaaba

Overview

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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Cast

Bouzid Negnoug

Omar

Mohamed Fellag

Bouzid

Nabil Ghalem

Hacène

Galamelah Lagra

Farid

Kenza Bouanika

Zohra

Amina Medjoubi

Messaouda

Lounès Tazairt

Saïd

François Morel

Monsieur Grand

Manuela Gourary

La Zieurond

Abdelkarim Chebel

Sélem