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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
