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THE MEURSAULT INVESTIGATION
By: 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
βA tour-de-force reimagining of Camusβs The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.β βThe New Yorker He was the brother of βthe Arabβ killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camusβs classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his siblingβs memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a nameβMusaβand describes the events that led to Musaβs 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 Daoudβs 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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