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Daoud, Kamel.
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Authorship -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
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Daoud, Kamel.
Authorship -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
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Zabor
, or the
Psalms
/ Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.
by
Daoud, Kamel.
Other Press, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION DAO
Subjects
Authorship -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781635420142 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Psalms
Description:
372 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the French.
Summary:
"A fable, parable, and confession, the second novel from the acclaimed author of The Meursault Investigation pays homage to the essential need for fiction and to the insolent freedom afforded by an adopted language. Having lost his mother and been shunned by his father,
Zabor
grows up in the company of books, which afford 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 for longer. Like a kind of inverted Scheherazade saving his fellow men, he experiments night after night with the delirious power of the imagination. On this particular evening, all the progeny of his stepmother come knocking at the door: his father is going to die and perhaps only
Zabor
is capable of delaying the 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 countless fictional worlds that he alone in the entire village has ever had access to"--Publisher.
Genre:
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Literary fiction.
Other authors:
Ramadan, Emma.
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Adult Fiction
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