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English edition
Sep
2003
256 pp.
Paperback
12.5X20 cm
$15.95
LE 75.00
ISBN
978 977 424 734 7
For sale worldwide
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Memory in the Flesh
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Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Translated by
Baria Ahmar
Revised by
Peter Clark
New revised paperback edition of an award-winning novel
This prize-winning novel, the first to be written by an Algerian woman in Arabic, is set against Algeria’s struggle against foreign domination as well as its post-independence struggle with itself and the fate of revolutionary ideals in a post-revolutionary society.
The story, spanning more than four decades of Algerian history, from the 1940s to the 1980s, revolves around a love affair between Khaled, the middle-aged militant who turns to painting after losing his left arm in the struggle, and Hayat, the fiction writer and young daughter of his friend the freedom fighter Si Taher, all brilliantly told through Khaled’s voice. It was features such as this convincing embodiment of a male voice alongside narrative techniques in which the author subtly joins the achievements of world literature with that of local storytelling and traditional modes of narration that particularly impressed the judges who awarded this novel the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi received her B.A. in Arabic literature from the University of Algiers in 1973, and was awarded a doctorate in sociology from the Sorbonne in 1982. She is the author of two volumes of poetry and a second novel, Chaos of the Senses.
Baria Ahmar is a Lebanese journalist and translator who lives in Canada.
Peter Clark is a translator and writer who lives in England.
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