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The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud
Other Press
June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
160 pages
ISBN: 1590517512
EAN: 9781590517512
Kindle: B00U4W2CIW
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Fiction | Mystery
“A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The
Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab
victims.” —The New Yorker He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous
Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy
years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood
in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, refuses to let him
remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a
name—Musa—and describes the events that led to Musa’s casual
murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his
solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men
desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a
country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his
own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud’s story,
in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most
famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great
predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only
a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous
effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work
of literature in its own right, told in a unique and
affecting voice.
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