A review by jgauthier
Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard

3.0

Read in translation. This dark, existential coming-of-age story follows Lakhdar, a Moroccan teen, from his homeless youth to brushes with radical Islam and a fragile illegal-alien existence in Barcelona. All the while, he struggles to escape the labels others attribute to him — Moroccan, Muslim — and chart his own path.

Finished this book in four days — the prose and plot had quite the pull on me. Good book.