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Our Riches

English

By (author): Kaouther Adimi

Translated by: Chris Andrews

Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto by the young, for the young, discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers.

Our Riches interweaves Charlots story with that of another twenty-year-old, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryads no booklover, but old Abdallah, the bookshops self-appointed, nearly illiterate guardian, opens the young mans mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad, from the 1930s to current times, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama into her swift and poignant novel. But most of all, its a hymn to the book and to the love of books. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 173g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 206mm
  • Publication Date: 12 May 2020
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811228152

About Kaouther Adimi

Born in 1986 in Algiers Kaouther Adimi lives in Paris. Our Riches her third novel was shortlisted for the Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot the Prix du Style the Prix Beur FM Méditerranée and the Choix Goncourt de lItalie. The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.

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