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Hardcover:
9788426417039 | Italian edition edition (Lumen Editorial, February 1, 2009), cover price $33.95
Product Description: What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence? Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebarâs The Tongueâs Blood Does Not Run Dry reaches into the void where normal and impossible realities coexist. All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996âa time when, by official accounts, some two hundred thousand Algerians were killed in Islamist assassinations and government army reprisals...read more
Hardcover:
9781583227480, titled "The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories" | Seven Stories Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $22.95
Paperback:
9781583227879 | 1 edition (Seven Stories Pr, January 1, 2010), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence?
Paperback:
9788420654218 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $35.95
Product Description: What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence? Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebarâs The Tongueâs Blood Does Not Run Dry reaches into the void where normal and impossible realities coexist. All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996âa time when, by official accounts, some two hundred thousand Algerians were killed in Islamist assassinations and government army reprisals...read more
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9781583227213 | Seven Stories Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence?
Assia Djebar, the most distinguished woman writer to emerge from the Arab worldâand a top candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literatureâwrote Children of the New World following her own involvement in the Algerian resistance to colonial French rule. This long-overdue first English translation coincides with the 50th anniversary of the start of the Algerian war and with the growing insurgency in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East.Like the classic film The Battle of Algiersâenjoying renewed interest in the face of world eventsâDjebarâs novel sheds light on current world conflicts as it reveals a determined Arab insurgency against foreign occupation, from the inside out.However, Djebar focuses on the experiences of women drawn into the politics of resistance. Her novel recounts the interlocking lives of women in a rural Algerian town who find themselves joined in solidarity and empower each other to engage in the fight for independence. Narrating the resistance movement from a variety of perspectivesâfrom those of traditional wives to liberated students to political organizersâDjebar powerfully depicts the circumstances that drive oppressed communities to violence and at the same time movingly reveals the tragic costs of war.Renowned writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar has authored several novels, including the critically lauded So Vast the Prison and Algerian White. She has won several awards for her work, including the prestigious International Neustadt Prize for Literature. Born and raised in Algeria, Djebar is currently the Silver Chair of French at New York University.Marjolijn de Jager, PhD, is the translator of Djebarâs Algerian White and Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, which was honored by the American Literary Translators Association. She teaches at the Center for Foreign Languages and Translation at New York University.
Hardcover:
9781558615113 | Feminist Pr, October 1, 2005, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Assia Djebar, the most distinguished woman writer to emerge from the Arab worldâand a top candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literatureâwrote Children of the New World following her own involvement in the Algerian resistance to colonial French rule.
Paperback:
9781558615106 | Feminist Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $15.95
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9788420656731, titled "Lejos de Medina / Far from Medina: Hijas De Ismael" | Poc edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by Djebar, Assia
Product Description: 17.8 x 11.1 x 2 CM La femme sans sépulture, c'est Zoulikha, héroïne oubliée de la guerre d'Algérie, montée au maquis au printemps 1957 et portée disparue deux ans plus tard, après son arrestation par l'armée française. Femme exceptionnelle, si vivante dans sa réalité de mère, d'amante, d'amie, d'opposante politique, dans son engagement absolu et douloureux, dans sa démarche de liberté qui scelle sa vie depuis l'enfance et qui ne l'a jamais quittée, sa présence irradiante flotte à jamais au-dessus de Césarée...read more
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9782253108160 | Educa Books, September 15, 2004, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: 17.
Hardcover:
9780810117365 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 30, 2009, cover price $26.95
The author uses the death of three friends to meditate on the history of modern Algeria, offering readers and inside look at the civil war and strife that currently threatens the nation.
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Hardcover:
9781583220504 | Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author uses the death of three friends to meditate on the history of modern Algeria, offering readers and inside look at the civil war and strife that currently threatens the nation.
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9781583225165 | Seven Stories Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $16.95
Product Description: Convoquer les morts, ces "chers disparus", et restituer leurs derniers instants, l'horreur de leur mort, la douleur de leurs proches, comme un cérémonial dans un pays en proie à la guerre, où l'écrivain est offert en victime propitiatoire, tel est le propos de ce récit qui répond autant à une exigence de mémoire immédiate qu'à un désir de lire autrement l'histoire de l'Algérie...read more
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9782253153405 | Hachette, August 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Convoquer les morts, ces "chers disparus", et restituer leurs derniers instants, l'horreur de leur mort, la douleur de leurs proches, comme un cérémonial dans un pays en proie à la guerre, où l'écrivain est offert en victime propitiatoire, tel est le propos de ce récit qui répond autant à une exigence de mémoire immédiate qu'à un désir de lire autrement l'histoire de l'Algérie.
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9781583220672 | Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $16.95
The fourth novel by the Algerian author explores themes of violence, intimacy, victimization, and exile in modern male-dominated Algeria.
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Hardcover:
9781583220092 | 1 edition (Seven Stories Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores the themes of violence, intimacy, victimization, and exile in modern male-dominated Algeria
Miscellaneous:
9782760623132 | Ebrary, October 1, 1999, cover price $29.95
Product Description: Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals. Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person...read more
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9780704326705 | Quartet Books Ltd, March 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals.
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9780435086220 | Heinemann, March 15, 1993, cover price $22.50
Product Description: In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience...read more
Hardcover:
9780704326101 | Reissue edition (Quartet Books Ltd, March 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s.
Paperback:
9780435086213, titled "Fantasia an Algerian Cavalcade" | Heinemann, March 15, 1993, cover price $25.00
Product Description: The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface by one of North Africa's leading writers depicts the plight of urban Algerian women who have thrown off the shackles of colonialism only to face a postcolonial regime that denies and subjugates them even as it celebrates the liberation of men...read more
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9780813914022 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Features stories celebrating the strength and dignity of Algerian women of the past and present
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9780813918808 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year.
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