Nedjma

by Kateb Yacine

Rating: 4 (1 vote)

Tags: Set in ALGERIA Male author

Nedjma, Translated by Richard Howard

Description:
Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is the symbol of Algeria. Kateb has crafted a novel that is the saga of the founding ancestors of Algeria through the conquest of Numidia by the Romans, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and French colonial conquest. Nedjma is symbolic of the rich and sometimes bloody past of Algeria, of its passions, of its tenderness; it is the epic story of a human quest for freedom and happiness.

Add comment

Country: Algeria flag Algeria
Language: EN

More books from Algeria

Hizya Adolfo Kaminsky The Meursault Investigation

More books from Read Around Africa Challenge

Weeding the Flowerbeds The Dragons, the Giant, the Women The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears