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Algerian White Hardcover – May 10, 2001

by Assia Djebar (Author), David Kelley (Translator), Marjolijn de Jager (Translator)
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In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M'Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist; as well as Albert Camus. In Algerian White, Djebar finds a way to meld the personal and the political by describing in intimate detail the final days and hours of these and other Algerian men and women, many of whom were murdered merely because they were teachers, or writers, or students. Yet, for Djebar, they cannot be silenced. They continue to tell stories, smile, and endure through her defiant pen. Both fiction and memoir, Algerian White describes with unerring accuracy the lives and deaths of those whose contributions were cut short, and then probes even deeper into the meaning of friendship through imagined conversations and ghostly visitations.
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    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Seven Stories Press
  4. Publication date
    May 10, 2001
  5. Dimensions
    6.32 x 0.87 x 9.27 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    158322050X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1583220504
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“A hymn to friendship and the enduring power of language, [Algerian White ] is also a requiem for a nation's unfinished literature.” –Leslie Camhi, New York Times


“Assia Djebar has given weeping its words and longing its lyrics.” –William Gass


“There is not one line of theory in Algerian White. It goes much further. It whispers that time passes, but not only time, life also, life stolen by terror, a white life, of this white in which all vivid colors merge and vanish.” –Le Point

About the Author

A beloved author, translator, and filmmaker, Assia Djebar (1936–2015) was born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen in the Algerian town of Cherchell. Her novels and poems boldly faced the challenges and struggles she knew as a feminist living under patriarchy, and as an intellectual living under colonialism and its aftermath. Djebar’s writing, marked by a regal unwillingness to compromise in the face of ethical, linguistic, and narrative complexities, attracted devoted followers around the world, and received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Venice International Critics’ Prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Yourcenar Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, and a knighthood in France’s Legion of Honor. She was the first Algerian woman to be admitted to France’s prestigious École Normale Supérieure, and the first writer from the Maghreb to be admitted to the Académie Française.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press; First Edition (May 10, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 158322050X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583220504
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.02 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.32 x 0.87 x 9.27 inches
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CESAR MAYORAL FIGUEROA
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4.0 out of 5 stars sad yet enlightening
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2014
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A complex narrative, sad yet enlightening.
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K. Avalos
1.0 out of 5 stars I feel bad for the trees that died to print this.
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If I could give this pile of crap 0 stars, it would probably still be too many. It is disorganized, confusing, frustratingly dull, and is down right painful to read, but not for any of the reasons the pull quotes on the back imply. It is self-indulgent, pointless tripe with a side of name dropping of names most people outside of Algeria have never heard. This book serves no purpose. It did put me right to sleep several times though, so it may be helpful as a sleep aid. Or to balance a wobbly table.
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Meg Pierce
3.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Eulogy
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2018
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My second Assia Djebar work. She brings each writer to life memorializing them in their deaths. Tribute to the Algerian writers murdered in the war for independence and the Civil War, but so much more. She weaves together their tales and those of others in a patchwork quilt if writing that captures the interconnectedness of Algeria's people and intellectuals. However, many of the allusions were lost on this non-Algerian reader.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Item
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2009
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This item is great, it was received on time and the condition perfect. Thank you!
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Zeina Bader S. Issa
4.0 out of 5 stars glad to have bought it
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2003
I bought this book hoping to find info about the algerian writers mentioned on the back cover, what I found was more interesting.. detailed info about the turbulance in algeria, personal experiences,stories and very important history of a sister country our arab jounalism failed to report and/or bring to us. I was happy to have bought the book.
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Houria Pacha
5.0 out of 5 stars it is fantastic. thank you
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it make more sense in English to me. it is fantastic.
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