An Unfinished Business (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Franska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2011-01-17
Förlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Originalspråk
French
Dimensioner
197 x 132 x 19 mm
Vikt
179 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781408809440

An Unfinished Business

av Boualem Sansal
Häftad,  Franska, 2011-01-17
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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.
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In his desire to denounce injustice, lies and diktats of all kinds, to fight against amnesia and historical revisionism, but also to remember, nothing seems able to stop Boualem Sansal. Neither the violent reviews which he has received in his own country, nor the censorship to which his most recent books have been subjected ... One of the events of the literary season.' * Christine Rousseau, (headline review in) Le Monde * One has to understand that in the Arab-Muslim countries, the Shoah is generally disregarded, sometimes played down or even denied altogether. In breaking this taboo, Boualem Sansal tries to make understood to his own people that this momentous event in Jewish memory is also a metaphysical question that concerns all human beings. [An Unfinished Business] is to be hailed for its virtuoso structure and its concern for the universal and its political courage.' * Les Inrockuptibles *

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Born in 1949, Boualem Sansal lives in Boumerds, near Algiers. His first novel Le Serment des barbares [The Barbarians' Sermon] (1999) won the Prix du Premier Roman. In 2003 he was dismissed from his government job for criticising the Algerian government. Today he is considered not only one of Algeria's most important writers, but a literary figure of international stature. An Unfinished Business won the Grand Prix RTL LIRE 2008. Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations: the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Windows on the World by Frdric Beigbeder and the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Holiday in a Coma by the same author.

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