Product Description: In a large city in the north of Africa, a public functionary, chief of the rodent extermination department, fights against the millions of rats that threaten the city. Solitary, obsessive, and so sensitive it borders on paranoia, he devotes himself to his job in exemplary fashion...read more

Product Description: Fiction. Translated from the French by Leon Stephen. THE OBSTINATE SNAIL is the first translation into English of Boudjedra's diabolical satire of the bureaucratic mind, L'escargot entêté. Here are the notes of a civil servant in North Africa dedicated to ridding his fair city of a thriving population of rats, yet menaced by a solitary snail...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Arab Book Prize.Two old friends and cousins find themselves side by side on the flight from Algiers to Constantine. There is a lot of history between them, as well as bad blood. The flight will last only an hour—an hour during which both their stories will be told, interspersed by anecdotes of Algeria's struggle to release itself from France's colonial grip...read more