Two old friends find themselves side by side on the flight from Algiers to Constantine. Though bound by shared experiences from their youth, they have lived very different lives. The flight will last an hour, during which both their stories will be told, peppered by anecdotes about Algeria's struggle to release itself from the French colonial grip.
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About the Author:
Rachid Boudjedra: Rachid Boudjedra is an Algerian writer who has published numerous poems, essays and novels. Before 1982, these were generally in French, but since then he has concentrated on writing in Arabic.
André Naffis-Sahely: André Naffis-Sahely is a poet, translator and journalist, who reviews for the regularly for the TLS and The Independent. In 2010 he edited the Selected Prose of Mick Imlah. His translations of Abdellatif Laâbi's Le fond de la Jarre and Frankétienne's Műr ŕ cr
Review:
'...a reading experience that is compelling if sometimes very brutish.'
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- PublisherHaus Publishing
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1906697426
- ISBN 13 9781906697426
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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