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The Last Summer of Reason - Softcover

Djaout, Tahar

 
9780803215917: The Last Summer of Reason
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803215916 ISBN 13: 9780803215917
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2007

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This elegant, haunting novel takes us deep into the world of bookstore owner Boualem Yekker. He lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god. Once-treasured art and literature are now despised.
 
Silently holding his ground, Boualem withstands the new regime, using the shop and his personal history as weapons against puritanical forces. Readers are taken into the lush depths of the bookseller's dreams, the memories of his now-empty family life, his passion for literature, then yanked back into the terror and drudgery of his daily routine by the vandalism, assaults, and death warrants that afflict him.
 
From renowned Algerian author Tahar Djaout we inherit a brutal and startling story that reveals how far an ordinary human being will go to maintain hope.

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Tahar Djaout (1954&;93) was an Algerian novelist, poet, and journalist, and the author of twelve books, including Les vigiles, winner of the Prix Méditerranée. An outspoken critic of the extremism stirring his nation, he was assassinated by an Islamic fundamentalist group. The manuscript of this novel was found among his papers after his death.
 
Marjolijn de Jager teaches Dutch and French language and translation at New York University. Wole Soyinka is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the author of more than thirty books. Alek Baylee Toumi is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Wisconsin&;Stevens Point and the author of the play Madah-Sartre, available in a Bison Books edition.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803215916
ISBN 13 
9780803215917
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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