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The Meursault Investigation

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Description for The Meursault Investigation Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 216.

Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt

Winner of the Goncourt du Premier Roman

Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents

Winner of the Prix François Mauriac

THE NOVEL THAT HAS TAKEN THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY WORLD BY STORM

He was the brother of ‘the Arab’ killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name – Musa – and a voice, and by describing the events that led to his senseless ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780748399
SKU
9781780748399
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Ref
99-1

About Kamel Daoud
Kamel Daoud is an Algerian journalist based in Oran, where he writes for the Quotidien d’Oran – the third largest French-language Algerian newspaper. He contributes a weekly column to Le Point, and his articles have appeared in Libération, Le Monde, Courrier International, and are regularly reprinted around the world. International rights to the novel have been sold in twenty countries. ... Read more

Reviews for The Meursault Investigation
'A splendid achievement...Daoud has an angry and loquacious register...both beguiling and arresting. It's reminiscent of Italo Calvino: magical, labyrinthian, rhetorical and playfully dark'.
The Tablet
 'Daoud has created his own memorable fiction in which he brilliantly exposes the rise of Islamism in Algeria and his nation's failures post-independence.'
Huffington Post
'[A] wonderfully entangled novel. Establishing a ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Meursault Investigation


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