Ahmed Taibaoui – The Disappearance of Mr Nobody (retail) (epub)
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Name: Ahmed Taibaoui – The Disappearance of Mr Nobody (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
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Book:
Title: The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody
Author: Ahmed Taibaoui, translated by Jonathan Wright
Language: English
Year: 2023
Subjects: Noir fiction, Novels
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 133 str.
Description:
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, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
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…
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