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Harraga
EN HC NWISBN: 9781620402245 bzw. 1620402246, in Englisch, Bloomsbury Publishing, gebundenes Buch, neu.
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bargain book, remainder book, book, reading, Harraga. The term means "to burn," and it refers to those Algerians in exile, who burn their identity papers to seek asylum in Europe. But for Boualem Sansal, whose novels are banned in his own country, there is a kind of internal exile even for those who stay; and for no one is it worse than for the country's women. Lamia is thirty-five years old, a doctor. Having lost most of her family, she is accustomed to living alone, unmarried and contentedly independent when a teenage girl, Chrifa, arrives on her doorstep. Chrifa is pregnant by Lamia's brother in exile - Lamia's first indication since he left that he is alive - and she'll surely be killed if she returns to her parents. Lamia grudgingly offers her hospitality; Chrifa ungratefully accepts it. But she is restless and obstinate, and before long she runs away, out into the hostile streets - leaving Lamia to track her, fearing for the life of the girl she has come, improbably, to love as family. Boualem Sansal creates, in Lamia, an incredible narrator: cultured, caustic, and compassionate, with an ironic contempt for the government, she is utterly convincing. With his deceptively simple story, Sansal delivers a brave indictment of fundamentalism that is also warm and wonderfully humane. Hardcover.
bargain book, remainder book, book, reading, Harraga. The term means "to burn," and it refers to those Algerians in exile, who burn their identity papers to seek asylum in Europe. But for Boualem Sansal, whose novels are banned in his own country, there is a kind of internal exile even for those who stay; and for no one is it worse than for the country's women. Lamia is thirty-five years old, a doctor. Having lost most of her family, she is accustomed to living alone, unmarried and contentedly independent when a teenage girl, Chrifa, arrives on her doorstep. Chrifa is pregnant by Lamia's brother in exile - Lamia's first indication since he left that he is alive - and she'll surely be killed if she returns to her parents. Lamia grudgingly offers her hospitality; Chrifa ungratefully accepts it. But she is restless and obstinate, and before long she runs away, out into the hostile streets - leaving Lamia to track her, fearing for the life of the girl she has come, improbably, to love as family. Boualem Sansal creates, in Lamia, an incredible narrator: cultured, caustic, and compassionate, with an ironic contempt for the government, she is utterly convincing. With his deceptively simple story, Sansal delivers a brave indictment of fundamentalism that is also warm and wonderfully humane. Hardcover.
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Harraga
EN USISBN: 1620402246 bzw. 9781620402245, in Englisch, Bloomsbury USA, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
contemporary,european,fiction,foreign language fiction,french,literary,literature and fiction,world literature, Harraga. The term means "to burn," and it refers to those Algerians in exile, who burn their identity papers to seek asylum in Europe. But for Boualem Sansal, whose novels are banned in his own country, there is a kind of internal exile even for those who stay; and for no one is it worse than for the country's women.Lamia is thirty-five years old, a doctor. Having lost most of her family, she is accustomed to living alone, unmarried and contentedly independent when a teenage girl, Ch�rifa, arrives on her doorstep. Ch�rifa is pregnant by Lamia's brother in exile--Lamia's first indication since he left that he is alive--and she'll surely be killed if she returns to her parents. Lamia grudgingly offers her hospitality; Ch�rifa ungratefully accepts it. But she is restless and obstinate, and before long she runs away, out into the hostile streets--leaving Lamia to track her, fearing for the life of the girl she has come, improbably, to love as family.Boualem Sansal creates, in Lamia, an incredible narrator: cultured, caustic, and compassionate, with an ironic contempt for the government, she is utterly convincing. With his deceptively simple story, Sansal delivers a brave indictment of fundamentalism that is also warm and wonderfully humane.
contemporary,european,fiction,foreign language fiction,french,literary,literature and fiction,world literature, Harraga. The term means "to burn," and it refers to those Algerians in exile, who burn their identity papers to seek asylum in Europe. But for Boualem Sansal, whose novels are banned in his own country, there is a kind of internal exile even for those who stay; and for no one is it worse than for the country's women.Lamia is thirty-five years old, a doctor. Having lost most of her family, she is accustomed to living alone, unmarried and contentedly independent when a teenage girl, Ch�rifa, arrives on her doorstep. Ch�rifa is pregnant by Lamia's brother in exile--Lamia's first indication since he left that he is alive--and she'll surely be killed if she returns to her parents. Lamia grudgingly offers her hospitality; Ch�rifa ungratefully accepts it. But she is restless and obstinate, and before long she runs away, out into the hostile streets--leaving Lamia to track her, fearing for the life of the girl she has come, improbably, to love as family.Boualem Sansal creates, in Lamia, an incredible narrator: cultured, caustic, and compassionate, with an ironic contempt for the government, she is utterly convincing. With his deceptively simple story, Sansal delivers a brave indictment of fundamentalism that is also warm and wonderfully humane.
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Harraga
EN NWISBN: 9781620402245 bzw. 1620402246, in Englisch, Bloomsbury USA, neu.
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BOUALEM SANSAL, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Literary, Harraga, Dazzling novel about two women in Algiers – one young and rebellious, the other arecluse – by the controversial author of An Unfinished Business. 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 an XFactor contestant, Chérifa is talkative, curiously innocent, and utterly unafraid. She enters the house like a whirlwind, and leaves a trail of destruction in her wake. Lamia must try to teach her, to protect her against a world where a woman who is not meek, subservient, married is an affront, where a girl who is pregnant can be killed to spare her family's honour. By turns funny and lyrical, luminous and sardonic, Harraga, by the controversial author of An Unfinished Business, is the engaging and ultimately tragic story of two very different women who become friends and allies in a patriarchal world.
BOUALEM SANSAL, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Literary, Harraga, Dazzling novel about two women in Algiers – one young and rebellious, the other arecluse – by the controversial author of An Unfinished Business. 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 an XFactor contestant, Chérifa is talkative, curiously innocent, and utterly unafraid. She enters the house like a whirlwind, and leaves a trail of destruction in her wake. Lamia must try to teach her, to protect her against a world where a woman who is not meek, subservient, married is an affront, where a girl who is pregnant can be killed to spare her family's honour. By turns funny and lyrical, luminous and sardonic, Harraga, by the controversial author of An Unfinished Business, is the engaging and ultimately tragic story of two very different women who become friends and allies in a patriarchal world.
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