Lit in Translation

لون الروح

Lawn al-ruh

“The Colour of the Soul” (title translated by AI)

Salah Eddine Boujah (صلاح الدين بوجاه, born 1956)

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The story is spread over three places, a resort by a lake, a broad street and a eucalyptus forest, and each chapter circles back to where it began. At its centre stands a great hotel in a tourist resort where everything falls under the sway of informants armed with formidable surveillance technology, who follow every movement of the guests' bodies and try to reach their consciences and secrets, even the colour of their souls. Around it lies a world poised between the real and the nightmarish, held in the grip of terror, spying and bombings.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
190 pages in the original
Genres
Politics (assigned by AI)
First published
2008 by Dar al-Janub
Author's age
52 when first published
ISBN

9789973844835 (original)