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Boualem Sansal

Harraga

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In a crumbling colonial mansion besieged by slums in the old quarter of Algiers, Lamia lives a life of self-imposed isolation, communing only with her ghosts by day, working as a paediatrician by day. Her family are dead, but for her beloved brother Sofiane, who has become a harraga - one of those who risk their lives attempting to flee the country for a better life in Europe/elsewhere. Lamia's tranquil, ordered existence is turned upside-down when a sixteen-year-old stranger knocks on her door in the middle of the night. Only because she has been sent by Sofiane, Lamia takes the girl in. Pregnant, unmarried and dressed in garish finery like… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wynne, Frank (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4088-4400-7
  • EAN: 9781408844007
  • Produktnummer: 17065202
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 524 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Born in 1949, Boualem Sansal lives in Boumerdès, near Algiers. His first novel Le Serment des Barbares [The Barbarians' Sermon] (1999) won the Prix du Premier Roman. He is the acclaimed the author of An Unfinished Business, which Bloomsbury published in 2010. His books have won many prizes, including France's Prix du premier roman he has also recently been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2003 he was dismissed from his government job for criticising the Algerian government and in 2006 his books were banned in his native country following the publication of an open letter to the Algerian government, Poste restante: Alger, lettre de colère et d'espoir à mes compatriotes. Today he is considered not only one of Algeria's most important writers, but a literary figure of international stature, his books have been published in seventeen languages. Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations: the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellbecq, the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Windows on the World by Frédéric Beigbeder and the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Holiday in a Coma by the same author.

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