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The Meursault Investigation
Meursault, contre-enquête
Kamel Daoud (born 1970)
Translated by John Cullen
English editions
In EnglishThe Meursault Investigation
Other Press · United States · June 2015 · Paperback · 160 pages
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Haroun's brother was the nameless 'Arab' shot by Meursault in a classic twentieth-century novel. Seventy years on, having lived his whole life in the dead man's shadow, he gives him a name, Moussa, and a story. Old now, he spends evenings in an Oran bar, brooding on solitude, on people's need for God and on an Algeria that let him down.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 152 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Algeria
- First published
- 2014 by Actes Sud
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9782330033729 (original)
9781590517512 (Other Press, United States)
- More
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