Our riches
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Author
Contributors
Andrews, Chris, 1962- translator.
Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
Status
Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Adimi, K.
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Adimi, K.
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Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in French as Nos richesses"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot's story with that of another twenty-year-old, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad's no booklover, but old Abdallah, the bookshop's self-appointed, nearly illiterate guardian, opens the young man's mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad, from the 1930s to current times, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama into her swift and poignant novel. But most of all, it's a hymn to the book and to the love of books."--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Adimi, K., & Andrews, C. (2020). Our riches . New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Adimi, Kaouther, 1986- and Chris Andrews. 2020. Our Riches. New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Adimi, Kaouther, 1986- and Chris Andrews. Our Riches New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Adimi, Kaouther, and Chris Andrews. Our Riches New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
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