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The Influence Peddlers
Les Prépondérants
Hédi Kaddour (born 1945)
Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
English editions
In EnglishThe Influence Peddlers
Yale University Press · United States · 26 September 2017 · Paperback · 344 pages
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In 1922 an American film crew comes to Nahbès, a North African town, and the shock of modernity inflames notables, French settlers and young nationalists. Raouf, Rania, Kathryn, Neil, Gabrielle and others move between languages, powers and cities as old nations fracture.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 463 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, Germany, United States, 1920s
- First published
- 2015 by Gallimard
- Author's age
- 70 when first published
- ISBN
9782070149919 (original)
9780300222883 (Yale University Press, United States)
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