Algerian White

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At times strikingly lucid, at others stirringly implicated, this history of Algeria from its 1956 struggle for independence to the present day, records the horrors of civil war and the complex social and political issues that have drowned the country in bloodshed. Living in exile, Djebar expresses her guilt for fleeing murder when so many of her colleagues have been killed and, in a work that is part history and part memoir, expresses universal truths about the pain of loss 'A hymn to friendship and the power of language' The New York Times

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'A hymn to friendship and the power of language' The New York Times

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A beloved author, translator, and filmmaker,Assia Djebar(19362015) was born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen in the Algerian town of Cherchell. Her novels and poems boldly faced the challenges and struggles she knew as a feminist living under patriarchy, and as an intellectual living under colonialism and its aftermath. Djebars writing, marked by a regal unwillingness to compromise in the face of ethical, linguistic, and narrative complexities, attracted devoted followers around the world, and received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Venice International Critics Prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Yourcenar Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, and a knighthood in Frances Legion of Honor. She was the first Algerian woman to be admitted to Frances prestigiouscole Normale Suprieure, and the first writer from the Maghreb to be admitted to theAcadmie Franaise.