β Coben, Harlan
π Fiction
π
2015
π Page und Turner Verlag
π German
β 265 KB
π 2 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Our Riches
β Scribed by Kaouther Adimi
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811228169
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The powerful English debut of a rising young French star, Our Riches is a marvelous, surprising, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop
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...
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