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ISBN: 9781590517512
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2015
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
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This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and Western indifference to Arab lives.
Best Translated Novel of the Decade - Lit Hub
A New York Times Notable Book of 2015-Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015,New York Times-TIME MagazineTop Ten Books of 2015-Publishers WeeklyBest Books of the Year-Financial TimesBest Books of the Year
"A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus'sThe Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims."-The New Yorker
He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous- he gives his brother a story and a name-Musa-and describes the events that led to Musa's casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach.
In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die.
The Stranger is of course central to Daoud's story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identi
ISBN: 9781590517512
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2015
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Description:
This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and Western indifference to Arab lives.
Best Translated Novel of the Decade - Lit Hub
A New York Times Notable Book of 2015-Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015,New York Times-TIME MagazineTop Ten Books of 2015-Publishers WeeklyBest Books of the Year-Financial TimesBest Books of the Year
"A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus'sThe Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims."-The New Yorker
He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous- he gives his brother a story and a name-Musa-and describes the events that led to Musa's casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach.
In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die.
The Stranger is of course central to Daoud's story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identi