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The Leonard Lopate Show / July 28, 2008 / Underappreciated: Mehdi Charef

Underappreciated: Mehdi Charef

Monday, July 28, 2008

We continue our Underappreciated summer reading series with a look at Mehdi Charef, who helped create a new genre of Franco-African literature with his 1983 novel Tea in the Harem. It traces the conflicted identity and roots of a North African teenager living in Paris. Professor Alec Hargreaves of Florida State University tells us why Charef should be on your summer reading list.

Check out our other Underappreciated reading recommendations


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  • [1] spnyc from Washington Heights July 28, 2008 - 12:50PM

    There is a wealth of French-African literature, including West African, that is virtually unknown in the U.S. (and Europe) except for a few isolated translations that appear on undergraduate reading lists of "world literature".


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