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The star of Algiers : a novel / Aziz Chouaki ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz and Lulu Norman.
- Title
- The star of Algiers : a novel / Aziz Chouaki ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz and Lulu Norman.
- Author
- Chouaki, Aziz
- Publication
- Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ3989.2.C4978 E8813 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 213 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Moussa Massy's ambitions extend far beyond the three-room apartment he shares with the other thirteen members of his family in Algiers. A gifted performer of modern Kabyle song, he is as inspired by Prince and Michael Jackson as he is by Arab and Algerian traditional music. His first taste of fame, however, is brief, as the conflict between the fundamental Islamic group FIS and the more progressive FLN grows more violent and the city comes to a standstill amid corruption and scandal. As his music career begins to disintegrate, like the city itself, Massy's driving passion for music turns to unforgiving rage.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- novels.
- Political fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Novels
- Romans.
- Note
- "First published in France by editions Balland with the title L'étoile d'Alger"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN
- 1555974120
- OCLC
- 57377235
- SCSB-11862348
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library