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  Title

  The German mujahid

  Author

  Sansal, Boualem.

  Publisher:

  Europa Editions,

  Pub date:

  2009.

  Pages:

  228 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9781933372921

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Franklin Township Library.
  

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    Franklin Township Library	Copies	Material	Location
    FIC SAN	1	Book	Gallery - Adult Fiction

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  Personal Author:

  Sansal, Boualem.

  Uniform title:

  [Village de l'Allemand, ou, Le journal des frères Schiller. English.]

  Title:

  The German mujahid / Boualem Sansal ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

  Publication info:

  New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2009.

  Physical descrip:

  228 p. ; 21 cm.

  Summary:

  Two immigrant brothers discover the truth about their German father's past in this masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as "the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust." Narrator Malrich, the younger son of a German father and an Algerian mother, lives with relatives in a gritty, mostly Arab housing estate outside Paris. Malrich is an indifferent hoodlum while his older brother, Rachel, has a university degree and a glamorous job at "a multinational." The plot hinges on Malrich's reading of Rachel's diary after Rachel commits suicide. After their parents were murdered in Algeria in 1994, Rachel discovered that their father was a Waffen SS officer posted to the death camps. In alternating chapters, the story is perfectly rendered in Malrich's wonderfully adolescent voice and Rachel's increasingly agonized diary entries. All this plays out against Malrich's perceptive likening of Hitler's Germany to the rise of fundamentalist Islamism on his housing estate...

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  FRANKLIN

  Subject term:

  Brothers--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Family--Algeria--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Algeria--Fiction.

  Added author:

  Wynne, Frank.