Contents<> Acknowledgments Introduction: Unearthing Hidden History by Mildred Mortimer Nanterre. Amel. October 1996 Paris Flora and Mina Louis. Rue de La Sante Nanterre. Amel and Omer The Mother October 1961 The Owner of the Atlas Cafe Nanterre. Amel and Omer The Mother October 1961 Papon's Harki Flora Louis Defense. Amel and Omer The Mother October 1961 The Algerian Rescued from the Water Republique. Amel and Omer October 1961 The Owner of the Goutte d'Or Cafe. Barbes Flora Louis Flora Louis Place de la Concorde. Amel and Omer The Mother October 1961 The French Lover Louis Bonne Nouvelle. Amel and Omer October 30, 1961 The French Student Flora Saint-Michel. Amel and Omer The Mother October 17, 1961 The Bookseller of Rue Saint-Severin Louis Orly. Amel and Omer The Mother October 1961 The Cop at Clichy Louis Alexandria. Amel and Omer. Louis Notes Bibliography
First English edition of an acclaimed French novel
Leila Sebbar is one of the French-speaking world's most important writers. Her novels include Sherazade, Marguerite, La jeune fille au balcon, and Soldats. She was born in Algeria and lives in Paris, France. Mildred Mortimer is Professor of French at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has translated Leila Sebbar's Le Silence des Rives/Silence on the Shores and has written several works on North African literature, including Maghrebian Mosaic: A Literature in Transition and Journeys through the French African Novel. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
"This novel raises profound and timely questions about the nature of democracy, Muslim-Western relations, memory, history, and forgetting. Mildred Mortimer's masterful translation is a pleasure to read." Anne Donadey, author of Recasting Postcolonialism
"This novel raises profound and timely questions about the nature of democracy, Muslim-Western relations, memory, history, and forgetting. Mildred Mortimer's masterful translation is a pleasure to read." Anne Donadey, author of Recasting Postcolonialism
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