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289 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world"--NoveList.
Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. If the twentieth century produced a novel that...
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143 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. 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...
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Dani struggles with how to process the ambiguous grief she feels in the aftermath of her mother's death after moving to New Mexico with an aunt she never met.
Dani tolerated her existence in suburban Florida with her seemingly unloving mother by embracing the philosophy: Why care? It will only hurt. When her mother is killed in a sudden and violent manner, Dani goes into an even deeper protection mode: total numbness. When The...
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