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"This elegant and haunting novel casts us deep into the world of bookstore owner Boualem Yekker. He lives in a country being overtaken by a radically conservative party known as the Vigilant Brothers, a group that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: No work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Tahar Djaout
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 161
- Publisher
- Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, Ruminator Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781886913509
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