Our riches
Adimi, Kaouther, 1986-2020
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Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto "by the young, for the young," discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot's story with that of another twenty-year-old, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad's no booklover, but old Abdallah, the bookshop's self-appointed, nearly illiterate guardian, opens the young man's mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad, from the 1930s to current times, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris.
Main title:
Our riches / Kaouther Adimi ; translated from the French by Chris Andrews.
Author:
Adimi, Kaouther, 1986-, authorAndrews, Chris, 1962-, translator
Imprint:
New York : New Directions Publishing, 2020.©2020
Collation:
148 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"New Directions paperbook 1466."Originally published in French as Nos richesses.Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780811228152 (paperback)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
372852
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | ADIM | Available |