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The Context of Shantytown Kid

Shantytown Kid was published in 1986 as Le Gone du Chaaba in France. Our protagonist and narrator is the author himself - Azouz Begag - and he walks us through a three year period in his life, presumably in the 1960s, beginning in a shantytown outside of Lyon, France, named Le Chaaba by its residents and ending in inner-city Lyon. Azouz's parents and extended family inhabiting Le Chaaba with him are all natives of El-Ouricia who fled the poverty of Algeria to begin anew in France, building up the shantytown that become their home.