NEDJMA by Kateb Yacine ( 9780813913131 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

NEDJMA

By:

Kateb Yacine

Format:

Paperback

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£29.99

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£29.09

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ISBN 10:

0813913136

ISBN 13:

9780813913131

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS

Pub. date:

29 August, 1991

Series:

CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Synopsis:

Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is the symbol of Algeria. Kateb has crafted a novel that is the saga of the founding ancestors of Algeria through the conquest of Numidia by the Romans, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and French colonial conquest. Nedjma is symbolic of the rich and sometimes bloody past of Algeria, of its passions, of its tenderness; it is the epic story of a human quest for freedom and happiness.

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Illustrations, black and white

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University of Virginia Press

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