A “sharply satirical” novel about an oppressive religious dictatorship and one man’s discovery of an underground resistance (Library Journal). 2015 Winner of the Le Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française A tribute to George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Boualem Sansal’s 2084 tells the story of a near future in which religious extremists have established a caliphate that forbids autonomous thought. In the year 2084, in the kingdom of Abistan―named after the prophet Abi, earthly messenger of the god Yölah―citizens submit to a single god, demonstrating their devotion by kneeling in prayer nine times a day. Remembering the past is forbidden, and an omnipresent surveillance system instantly informs the authorities of every deviant act, thought, or idea. The kingdom is blessed and its citizens are happy, filled with purpose and piety. Those who are not―the heretics―are put to death by stoning or beheading in city squares. But Ati has met people who think differently: In ghettos and caves, hidden from the authorities, exist the last living heretics and free-thinkers of Abistan. Under their influence, Ati begins to doubt. He begins to think. Now, he will have to defend his thoughts with his life. 2084 is “a rare, powerful book, at the intersection of fable and lampoon, of satire and science fiction,” a cry of freedom, a gripping novel of ideas, and an indictment of the kind of closed-minded fundamentalism that threatens our democracies and the ideals on which they are founded (Lire). “Alison Anderson’s deft and intelligent translation [conveys] Sansal’s abhorrence of a system that controls people’s minds, while explaining that the religion was not originally evil but has been corrupted. A moving and cautionary story.”―The Times Literary Supplement “A powerful novel that celebrates resistance.”―The Guardian

2084: The End of the World

Humor & Entertainment

Sansal, Boualem

Humor

Europa Editions

An incendiary novel about the lives of women in Algeria, written by one of that country's most important writers.

Harraga

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Bloomsbury USA

“[A] masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust” from the Nobel Prize–nominated author (Publishers Weekly). Banned in the author’s native Algeria, this groundbreaking novel is based on a true story and inspired by the work of Primo Levi. The Schiller brothers, Rachel and Malrich, couldn’t be more dissimilar. They were born in a small village in Algeria to a German father and an Algerian mother and raised by an elderly uncle in one of the toughest ghettos in France. But the similarities end there. Rachel is a model immigrant―hard working, upstanding, law-abiding. Malrich has drifted. Increasingly alienated and angry, a bleak future seems inevitable for him. But when Islamic fundamentalists murder the young men’s parents in Algeria the destinies of both brothers are transformed. Rachel discovers the shocking truth about his family and buckles under the weight of the sins of his father, a former SS officer. Now Malrich, the outcast, will have to face that same awful truth alone. “The German Mujahid deals with the fine line between the destructive power wielded by Islamic fundamentalism today and the power of another movement that left an indelible mark on history: Nazism.”―Haaretz (Israel) “With extraordinary eloquence, Sansal condemns both the [Algerian] military and the Islamic fundamentalists; he decries that Algeria crippled by trafficking, religion, bureaucracy, the culture of illegality, of coups, and of clans, career apologists, the glorification of tyrants, the love of flashy materialism, and the passion for rants.”―Lire (France) “The German Mujahid, winner of the RTL-Lire Prize for fiction, is a marvelous, devilishly well-constructed novel.”―L’Express (France)

The German Mujahid

Contemporary

Mots pour maux

COLLECTIFS

Vigan, Delphine De

Winckler, Martin

Fitoussi, Michèle

Germain, Sylvie

Miano, Léonora

PAGE, Martin

BARTELT, Franz

Sylvain, Dominique

Polet, Grégoire

Bragance, Anne

Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier

Claudel, Philippe

Guillaume, Marie-Ange

Vallejo, François

Terence, Mathieu

Meur, Diane

Delecroix, Vincent

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Petit éloge de la mémoire: Quatre mille et une années de nostalgie

Essays & Correspondence

Фоліо

Poste restante : Alger: Lettre de colère et d'espoir à mes compatriotes

Boualem Sansal is an internationally acclaimed Algerian author. 'Le village de l'Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller' is the story of two Algerian brothers who burrow into the past and discover that their father had been a Nazi officer who fled to Algeria after the war. 'Le Village de l'allemand' is the first of Sansal's novels to be translated into English, and was published in the US as The German Mujahid and in the UK as An Unfinished Business.

Le village de l'Allemand ou Le journal des frères Schiller

Le serment des barbares

*** Book in French language ! ***Très bon état, in12 broché, n°5555 , Auteur : SANSAL, Boualem , Titre : Rue Darwin , couverture souple, format poche , éditions : Folio de 2013

Rue Darwin

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