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Zabor, or the psalms
- Title
- Zabor, or the psalms / Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.
- Author
- Daoud, Kamel
- Publication
- New York : Other Press, [2021]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-1987 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ramadan, Emma
- Description
- 372 pages; 21 cm
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Zabor ou les psaumes. English
- Alternative Title
- Zabor ou les psaumes.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Note
- "Originally published in French as Zabor ou les psaumes in 2017 by Editions Barzakh in Algeria and by Actes Sud in France"--Title page verso
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1987
- ISBN
- 9781635420142
- 1635420148
- LCCN
- 2020030700
- 16802578
- OCLC
- 1157910218
- Author
- Daoud, Kamel, author.
- Title
- Zabor, or the psalms / Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.
- Publisher
- New York : Other Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Ramadan, Emma, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Daoud, Kamel. Zabor, or the psalms. New York : Other Press, [2021] 9781635420159 (DLC) 2020030701
- Other Standard Identifier
- 16802578
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1987