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A Bookshop in Algiers (1936)
~EN HC NWISBN: 9781788164696 bzw. 1788164695, vermutlich in Englisch, Profile Books Ltd, gebundenes Buch, neu.
'If you're in a bookshop browsing, then A Bookshop In Algiers is for you, by definition. A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature to everyone, especially people who are trying to find a voice.' Nick Hornby In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, Charlot's beloved bookshop has been closed for decades, living on as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever. But as a young man named Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that sells books. A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of Charlot's bookshop through the political drama of Algeria's turbulent twentieth century of war, revolution and independence. It is a moving celebration of books, bookshops and of those who dare to dream.
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Our Riches (2017)
~EN NWISBN: 9780811228152 bzw. 0811228150, vermutlich in Englisch, New Directions Publishing, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, neu.
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Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto by the young, for the young," discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot''s story with that of another twenty-year-old, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad''s no booklover, but old Abdallah, the bookshop''s self-appointed, nearly illiterate guardian, opens the young man''s mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad, from the 1930s to current times, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama intoher swift and poignant novel. But most of all, it''s a hymn to the book and to the love of books. ".
Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto by the young, for the young," discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot''s story with that of another twenty-year-old, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad''s no booklover, but old Abdallah, the bookshop''s self-appointed, nearly illiterate guardian, opens the young man''s mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad, from the 1930s to current times, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama intoher swift and poignant novel. But most of all, it''s a hymn to the book and to the love of books. ".
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A Bookshop in Algiers (2017)
~EN HC NWISBN: 9781788164696 bzw. 1788164695, vermutlich in Englisch, Profile Books Ltd, gebundenes Buch, neu.
A Bookshop in Algiers: An interweaving of the stories of famous Algerian bookstore founder Edmond Charlot, who played a significant role in the rise of Albert Camus and Gertrude Stein, and the 2017 painter who decorates the shop, his mind exposed to books. A celebration of the position of literature in historical and political tumult. Englisch, Buch.
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