Ninette of Sin Street

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"Ninette is an unlikely protagonist: Compelled by poverty to work as a prostitute, she dreams of a better life and and an education for her son. Plucky and street-wise, she enrolls her son in the local school and the story unfolds as she narrates her life to the school's headmistress. Ninette's account is both a classic rags-to-riches tale and a subtle, incisive critique of French colonialism."-- From back cover.

subjects: Jews, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Tunisia, fiction,  Tunisian Jews,  Fiction,  Jews