Editorial Other Press
Fecha de edición marzo 2021 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781635420142
384 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 135 mm x 203 mm
Having lost his mother and been shunned by his father, Zabor grows up in the company of books, which teach him a new language. Ever since he can remember, he has been convinced that he has a gift: if he writes, he will stave off death; those captured in the sentences of his notebooks will live longer. Like a kind of inverted Scheherazade saving his fellow men, he experiments night after night with the delirious power of the imagination.
Then, one night, his estranged half brother and the other relatives who would disown him come knocking at the door: his father is going to die and perhaps only Zabor is capable of delaying that fateful moment. Sitting next to the father who has ostracized him, the son writes compulsively, retracing an existence characterized by strangeness, abandonment, and humiliation, but also by wondrous encounters with fictional worlds that he alone in the entire village can access.
Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d'Oran, où il tient depuis douze ans la chronique la plus lue d'Algérie. Il vit à Oran. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs récits dont certains ont été réunis dans le recueil Le Minotaure 504 (Sabine Wespieser Editeur, 2010). Meursault, contre-enquête est son premier roman.
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