Man With No Title: A Life's Journey in 99 Steps - Hardcover

Le Clerc, Xavier

 
9780863569821: Man With No Title: A Life's Journey in 99 Steps
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 086356982X ISBN 13: 9780863569821
Verlag: Saqi Books, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeria, he has withdrawn into his own world, away from his wife and children. When his son Xavier discovers articles by Albert Camus describing the appalling conditions his father grew up in, he starts to piece together the story of his life.

Xavier retraces the steps of this dignified, illiterate and strong-willed man: from Kabylia - where starving children, like Mohand-Said, fought with dogs for scraps to the metal factory in Normandy, where his father would spend the rest of his days, consumed with providing for his family. It is there that Xavier discovers his love of books. When he breaks with conservative family traditions and confesses his attraction to men, Xavier will find which doors slam closed and which will open.

A Man With No Title is a beautiful and moving tribute to a father, to the immigrants condemned to undertake the hardest work for meagre reward, and to the power of literature to transcend class.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Rodarmor is a veteran French literary translator,writer and editor. He has translated some forty-five books and screenplays ingenres ranging from literary fiction to espionage and fantasy, and has won manytranslation prizes for his work.

XavierLe Clerc is a celebrated French Algerian novelist and poet. His thirdnovel Un homme sans titre received wide critical acclaim inFrance, where it was awarded four literary prizes, including theprestigious Prix du Livre La Tribune. Born Hamid Aït-Taleb in Kabylia,Algeria, Le Clerc changed his name in his early thirties due to discrimination. Henow lives with his husband between Paris and London.

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Living in France but ravaged by memories of war in Algeria, Mohand-Said has withdrawn into his own world. Xavier retraces the steps of his dignified and strong-willed illiterate father: from Kabylia to the factory in Normandy where his he would spend the rest of life. As he breaks with tradition, Xavier finds which doors slam closed and which open.

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Verlag
Saqi Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
086356982X
ISBN 13 
9780863569821
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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