An Unfinished Business

Literature & Fiction

Boualem Sansal

Literary

Bloomsbury Publishing

Rachel and Malrich are the sons of a German father and an Algerian mother. Born in a small village in the Algerian hinterland, they are sent to Paris to be educated. Rachel excels under the French education system to become a successful businessman working for a multinational, but Malrich, 15 years younger, grows up in the banlieue, drops out of school and mixes with the wrong crowd. The brothers keep a wary distance from each other until the day their parents are killed in an Islamic fundamentalist raid. When their father's personal effects reach Paris, Rachel discovers that Hans Schiller was a reputed chemist before the war, who joined the Nazi party and then the Waffen SS. Posted to Auschwitz, he played an active part in the extermination of thousands of people. At the end of the war, he escaped to Egypt. There Nasser lent him to the burgeoning Algerian FLN, and after Independence, he settled in Ain Deb, where he started a family, enjoying the respect given to the mujahideen. Rachel feels compelled to re-examine his heritage and so begins a journey full of foreboding back to Algeria, then on to Germany to trace his father's past and to attempt to come to terms with the Shoah, one of the great taboos of Muslim culture. The attempt proves more than Rachel can bear, and it is left to the streetwise Malrich to take up the trail and complete his brother's unfinished business.

Unfinished Business

Contemporary

Bloomsbury UK

In a crumbling colonial mansion besieged by slums in the old quarter of Algiers, Lamia lives a life of self-imposed isolation, communing only with her ghosts by day, working as a paediatrician by day. Her family are dead, but for her beloved brother Sofiane, who has become a harraga - one of those who risk their lives attempting to flee the country for a better life in Europe/elsewhere. Lamia's tranquil, ordered existence is turned upside-down when a sixteen-year-old stranger knocks on her door in the middle of the night.  Only because she has been sent by Sofiane, Lamia takes the girl in.  Pregnant, unmarried and dressed in garish finery like an X-Factor contestant, Cherifa is talkative, curiously innocent, and utterly unafraid. She enters the house like a whirlwind, and leaves a trail of destruction in her wake. Lamia must try to teach her, to protect her against a world where a woman who is not meek, subservient, married is an affront, where a girl who is pregnant can be killed to spare her family's honour. By turns funny and lyrical, luminous and sardonic, Harraga, by the controversial author of An Unfinished Business, is the engaging and ultimately tragic story of two very different women who become friends and allies in a patriarchal world. Boualem Sansal is the acclaimed the author of An Unfinished Business, which Bloomsbury published in 2010. His books have won many prizes, including France's Prix du premier roman he has also recently been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books have been published in seventeen languages.

Harraga

BLOOMSBURY

Gouverner au nom d'Allah: Islamisation et soif de pouvoir dans le monde arabe (French Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

French and European Publications Inc

L'Abistan, immense empire, tire son nom du prophète Abi, délégué de Yölah sur terre. Son système est fondé sur l'amnésie et la soumission au dieu unique. Toute pensée personnelle est bannie, un système de surveillance omniprésent permet de connaître les idées et les actes déviants. Officiellement, le peuple unanime vit dans le bonheur de la foi sans questions. Le personnage central, Ati, met en doute les certitudes imposées. Il se lance dans une enquête sur l'existence d'un peuple de renégats, qui vit dans des ghettos, sans le recours de la religion. Boualem Sansal s'est imposé comme une des voix majeures de la littérature contemporaine. Au fil d'un récit débridé, plein d'innocence goguenarde, d'inventions cocasses ou inquiétantes, il s'inscrit dans la filiation d'Orwell pour brocarder les dérives et l'hypocrisie du radicalisme religieux qui menace les démocraties.

2084: La fin du monde - Grand prix du Roman de l'Académie Française 2015 (French Edition)

Poste restante Alger: lettre de colère et d'espoir à mes compatriotes (HORS SERIE CONNAISSANCE)

<p>L'Abistan, immense empire, tire son nom du prophète Abi, délégué de Yölah sur terre. Son système est fondé sur l'amnésie et la soumission au dieu unique. Toute pensée personnelle est bannie, un système de surveillance omniprésent permet de connaître les idées et les actes déviants. Officiellement, le peuple unanime vit dans le bonheur de la foi sans questions. Le personnage central, Ati, met en doute les certitudes imposées. Il se lance dans une enquête sur l'existence d'un peuple de renégats, qui vit dans des ghettos, sans le recours de la religion. Boualem Sansal s'est imposé comme une des voix majeures de la littérature contemporaine. Au fil d'un récit débridé, plein d'innocence goguenarde, d'inventions cocasses ou inquiétantes, il s'inscrit dans la filiation d'Orwell pour brocarder les dérives et l'hypocrisie du radicalisme religieux qui menace les démocraties.</p>

2084: La Fin Du Monde (French Edition)

Postlagernd: Algier

Merlin Verlag

2084

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