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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they never existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969)
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ZIN Product Number: 10523378
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 147 pages
Publisher: Ruminator Books
ISBN: 1886913501
Release Date: Jan 3, 1991
| |  | | | In Brief
This elegant and haunting novel casts us deep into the world of bookstore owner Boualem Yekker. He lives in a country being overtaken by a radically conservative party known as the Vigilant Brothers, a group that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god. Once-treasured art and literature are now despised.
Silently holding his ground, Boualem withstands the new regime, using the shop and his personal history as weapons against puritanical forces. Readers are taken into the lush depths of the bookseller's dreams, the memories of his now empty family life, and his passion for literature, then yanked back into the terror and drudgery of his daily routine by the vandalism, assaults, and death warrants that afflict him.
From renowned Algerian author Tahar Djaout we inherit a brutal and startling story that reveals how far an ordinary human being will go to maintain hope.
A percentage of the proceeds from this book will go to American Booksellers Foundation for the Freedom of Expression (ABFFE), "the bookseller's voice in the fight against censorship."
| | | | From The Publisher
On May 26, 1993 novelist, poet, and journalist Tahar Djaout was attacked by several assassins as he was leaving his home in Bainem, Algeria. He died on June 2 after lying in a coma for a week. Djaout's death was attributed to an Islamic fundamentalist group. One of his attackers professed that he was murdered because he "wielded a fearsome pen that could have an effect on Islamic sectors." The manuscript of this novel, The Last Summer of Reason, was found among Djaout's papers after his death. Author of eleven books of poetry and fiction, including the novel Les vigiles (winner of the prix Mediterranee), Djaout was considered one of the most promising writers of his generation.
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| | | |  | | | | Foreword | ix | | Sermon 1 | 3 | | The Vigilant Brothers | 9 | | When will the quake happen? | 17 | | The summer when time stopped | 27 | | Pilgrim of the new times | 35 | | The Good whose substance the Almighty established | 47 | | The nocturnal tribunal | 57 | | The binding text | 67 | | A dream shaped like madness | 73 | | The future is a closed door | 79 | | The message suppressed | 87 | | For that we will live, for that we will die | 89 | | Therapists of the spirit | 93 | | One should come from nowhere | 99 | | The unknown arbiter | 107 | | Born to have a body | 117 | | Does death make noise as it moves? | 129 |
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