So Close
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In So Close, the internationally renowned writerH l ne Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeriaafter a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decideto go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a landwhere she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she mustleave. Above all, she must confront the depths of hermother's rejection of the country that had rejected herdespite years of devotion to the poor women of Algiers. As she isstruggling with this decision, she receives a message from ZohraDrif, with whom she has had no contact since their school days, which was just before Zohra joined the Algerian FLN and become aheroine in the uprising against French rule in her homeland. Theymeet in Paris for the first time in more than fifty years and soonafterward the narrator departs for Algiers.
The latter part of the narrative brings a rush of sensations, impressions, memories, and new encounters as the narrator revisitssites from her past in Algiers and especially in Oran, the city ofher birth, the city of the family's happiness before herfather's death when she was a young girl. The quest to findhis grave again in the overgrown Jewish cemetery of Algiers leadsto a startlingly moving scene that closes the voyage and thebook.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B007YW9LUC
ISBN13:9780745644363
Release Date:February 2010
Publisher:Polity Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"
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