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008    091022s2009    nyu           000 f eng d
020    9781933372921 |qpaperback |c$15.00
020    1933372923 |qpaperback |c$15.00
035    (OCoLC)ocn318411349
035    151602
043    f-ae---
049    LHMA
041 1  eng |hfre
040    BTCTA |beng |erda |cBTCTA |dOCP |dGPI |dYDXCP |dVP@ |dWAU |dLHM
090    PQ3989.2.S2455 |bV5513 2009
092    Fiction
100 1  Sansal, Boualem.
240 10 Village de l'Allemand, ou, Le journal des frères Schiller. |lEnglish
245 14 The German mujahid / |cBoualem Sansal ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
264  1 New York, N.Y. : |bEuropa Editions, |c2009.
300    228 pages ; |c21 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
520    Two immigrant brothers discover the truth about their German father's past in this masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as "the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust." Narrator Malrich, the younger son of a German father and an Algerian mother, lives with relatives in a gritty, mostly Arab housing estate outside Paris. Malrich is an indifferent hoodlum while his older brother, Rachel, has a university degree and a glamorous job at "a multinational." The plot hinges on Malrich's reading of Rachel's diary after Rachel commits suicide. After their parents were murdered in Algeria in 1994, Rachel discovered that their father was a Waffen SS officer posted to the death camps. In alternating chapters, the story is perfectly rendered in Malrich's wonderfully adolescent voice and Rachel's increasingly agonized diary entries. All this plays out against Malrich's perceptive likening of Hitler's Germany to the rise of fundamentalist Islamism on his housing estate...
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
651  0 Algeria |vFiction.
650  0 Brothers |vFiction.
650  0 Families |zAlgeria |vFiction.
650  0 Children of Nazis |zAlgeria |vFiction.
655  7 Novels. |2lcgft
700 1  Wynne, Frank.
852 0   |bstacks |hPQ3989.2.S2455 |iV5513 2009