A01=Kaouther Adimi
albert camus
Algeria
algiers
antifascist journal
at the existentialist cafe
Author_Kaouther Adimi
bookshop story
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free French
French resistance
jean paul Sartre
l'etranger
l’etranger
mersault incident
pieds-noirs
power of literature
publishing history
resistance to fascism
second world war
vichy France
ww2
wwii
Product details
- ISBN 9781788164702
- Weight: 137g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature.' Nick Hornby
'Truly potent ... Adimi confronts us with episodes that are simply never spoken of in France' The New York Times Book Review
In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, Charlot's beloved bookshop has been closed for decades, living on as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever. But as a young man named Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that sells books.
A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of Charlot's bookshop through the political drama of Algeria's turbulent twentieth century of war, revolution and independence. It is a moving celebration of books, bookshops and of those who dare to dream.
Kaouther Adimi is a young Algerian novelist living in France. A Bookshop in Algiers is her third novel - the first to be published in English - and was published in France in 2017, where it sold over 50,000 copies and received nominations for the Prix Goncourt and Médicis and won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens and the Prix du Style.
