Kamel Daoud

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• Houris

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  Goncourt 2024 · ★ Winner

  Houris

  Kamel Daoud · 54 when first published

  Novel · 411 pages · War, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Aube, a young Algerian woman left mute by a throat wound from the civil war of the 1990s, tells her story to the daughter she is carrying and wonders whether she has the right to keep her.

• Meursault, contre-enquête

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  Goncourt 2014 · Shortlist

  The Meursault Investigation

  Meursault, contre-enquête

  Kamel Daoud · 44 when first published

  Novel · 160 pages · Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Seventy years after the killing on the beach told in a famous twentieth-century novel, the brother of “the Arab” shot by Meursault gives the victim back his name, Moussa, and his story.