The young Berber narrator of Donkey Heart
Monkey Mind has to learn the kind of perseverance and
ingenuity it takes to survive in 1980’s Algeria, where his
people are second-class citizens in a third world country.
His tale opens when police brutally beat him for
participating in a protest march. Knowing that he must leave
his own country or suffer this kind of treatment forever, he
begins wandering Europe and northern Africa, desperately
seeking some alternative…. |
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