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Contemporary, prestige, epic and richly built.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Boualem Sansal
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 273
- Publisher
- Gallimard
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- French
- ISBN
- 9782070149933
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Award winning Algerian writer of French
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