Algerian White: A Narrative
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Book Overview
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar gives a chilling firsthand account of religious extremism and intellectual persecution in her native Algeria. She recounts the lives of three of her friends a psychiatrist, a sociologist, and a playwright who were killed in the aftermath of the 1956 struggle for independence. But Djebar will not allow her friends to be silenced. Her powerful memoir grows from conversations remembered and imagined with these fallen comrades...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1583225161
ISBN13:9781583225165
Release Date:February 2003
Publisher:Seven Stories Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.78 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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glad to have bought it
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I bought this book hoping to find info about the algerian writers mentioned on the back cover, what I found was more interesting.. detailed info about the turbulance in algeria, personal experiences,stories and very important history of a sister country our arab jounalism failed to report and/or bring to us. I was happy to have bought the book.
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