Ahmed Taibaoui 
The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody [EPUB ebook] 
A Novel

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WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE
A BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB)
A “spare, well-crafted and compelling” (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he expected
In Rouiba, a nondescript suburb of Algiers, an unnamed man with a troubled past escapes his everyday life to find himself caring for an old man with dementia. When the man dies, the carer disappears into thin air. A police detective is assigned to investigate the circumstances of the old man’s demise and to track down the caretaker, only to find that the unnamed man cannot be identified—that there is no trace of Mr. Nobody. The officer’s search leads him to those whose paths once crossed Mr. Nobody’s. In each of them he finds a reflection of the man he is looking for.
A raw, lyrical portrait of life on the margins in contemporary Algiers, this haunting noir captures an underworld of police informers, shady imams, bootleg beer traders, and grave robbers, and reverberates with echoes of Algeria’s violent past.

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Jonathan Wright is a British literary translator and former journalist currently based in London. His numerous translations into English most recently include, Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, winner of International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He studied Arabic, Turkish and Islamic civilization at Oxford University and served both as Reuters‘ Cairo bureau chief and as Reuters’ U.S. foreign policy correspondent based in their Washington, D.C. office.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 126 ● ISBN 9781649032164 ● Dateigröße 0.6 MB ● Übersetzer Jonathan Wright ● Verlag The American University in Cairo Press ● Ort Cairo ● Land EG ● Erscheinungsjahr 2023 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 8530813 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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