Assia Djebar, Author, Betsy Wing, Translator Seven Stories Press $24.95 (363p) ISBN 978-1-58322-009-2
Writing becomes weapon and refuge for the oppressed in this fiercely intelligent, intricate novel set in a tragic, bewitching Algeria. Expressing the bitterness of being caught between traditional Islamic and modern European cultures, married 36-year
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Assia Djebar, Author, Marjolijn de Jager, Translator , trans. from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. Feminist Press $52 (233p) ISBN 978-1-55861-510-6
Death begins and ends Djebar's moving, mesmerizing account of the Algerian war of independence. Using the interaction of several characters over the course of a single day in a small mountain town, Djebar shows how the fight against French...
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Assia Djebar, Author, Marjolijn de Jager, Translator, Clarisse Zimra, Photographer University of Virginia Press $37.5 (211p) ISBN 978-0-8139-1402-2
Like the 19th-century Delacroix paintings of harem women from which it takes its title, this collection of six stories and an essay--published in 1980 in French--depicts moments in the lives of Algerian women. More than a century after Delacroix,...
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