A bookshop in Algiers
Adimi, Kaouther, 1986-2020
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In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Fast-forward to 2017 and young Ryad arrives at Charlot's beloved bookshop. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, it has been closed for decades, living on as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever. But as Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that sells books.
Main title:
A bookshop in Algiers / Kaouther Adimi ; translated from the French by Chris Andrews.
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2020.London : Serpent's Tail, 2020.
Collation:
146 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.This translation originally published: as Our riches. U.S.: New Directions.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781788164696 (hbk)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2329024