Sarajevo Firewood
Sarajevo Firewood is a searing narrative by Algerian author Saïd Khatibi about two countries - Algeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina - both of which experienced traumatic and destructive civil wars in the 1990s. It is told through the voices of Salim, an Algerian journalist, and Ivana, a young Bosnian woman, both of whom have fled the destruction and hatred of their own countries to try to build new lives in Slovenia. As Ivana pursues the goal of writing her 'dream play', and Salim discovers he is not his father's son, Khatibi's novel brings to life in a rich fictional form the memories and experiences of the countless ordinary people who surviv…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Starkey, Paul
- ISBN: 978-1-913043-24-7
- EAN: 9781913043247
- Produktnummer: 37788887
- Verlag: Banipal Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saada, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. He has three novels in Arabic: Sarajevo Firewood, which was shortlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Kitab al-Khataya (Book of Errors) Editions ANEP, 2013, and (Forty Years Waiting for Isabelle), 2016, about the real-life Swiss traveller Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), for which he won the 2018 Katara Award for the Novel. His travel book about the Balkans, (The Inflamed Gardens of the East), 2015, was excerpted in Banipal 66 (2019). He lives in Slovenia.
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