Tahar Djaout

"Silently holding his ground, Boualem withstands the new regime, using the shop and his personal history as weapons against puritanical forces. Readers are taken into the lush depths of the bookseller's dreams, the memories of his now empty family life, his passion for literature - then yanked back into the terror and drudgery of his daily routine by the vandalism, assaults, and death warrants that afflict him."--BOOK JACKET.

A Novel

The Last Summer of Reason

Afin de répondre à une commande éditoriale, un homme s'applique à écrire l'histoire d'une dynastie médiévale, venue des confins du Sahara pour soumettre tout le Maghreb. Mais ressusciter le passé est une entreprise qui peut lâcher soudain sur le présent des hantises et des démons insoupçonnés.

roman

L'invention du désert

Les Chercheurs d'os

Les vigiles

Les rets de l'oiseleur

The renowned author of "The Last Summer of Reason" achieved great acclaim for this elegant, chilling novel, winning FranceUs prestigious Prix Mediterranee in 1991. "The Watchers" is a politically and morally resonant fable of malevolent bureaucracy, thoughtless fundamentalism, and the danger of sacrificing liberty in the name of patriotism.

The Watchers

L'ultima estate della ragione

Fiction. African & African American Studies. "If you speak, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak and die."--Tahar Djaout Algeria, just after Independence. The inhabitants of a small Kabylian village go in search for the remains of their fighters who, during the war of liberation, fell here, there, and everywhere. They want to bury them a second time, at home, where they belong. Accompanied by a relative, an adolescent joins the "bone seekers" in search of his older brother's remains. It is the first time the boy has left his village, and he will stumble upon a new universe. But why retrieve his brother's bones when he can't even be sure they are really his? Why bury them in the village that his brother hated so much when he was alive? What is the quest for but to reassure the survivors, so they can be rid of their own specters? When the mission is over and he returns to his people with his macabre burden, the journey has transformed him. "A mix of seriousness and irony that sets the tone for a bitter denunciation."--La Dépêche de Kabylie

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