{"product_id":"zabor-or-the-psalms-paperback","title":"Zabor, or the Psalms - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKamel Daoud\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEmma Ramadan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best World Literature of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fable, parable, and confession, the second novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Meursault Investigation \u003c\/i\u003epays homage to the essential need for fiction and to the freedom from tradition afforded by an adopted language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Having lost his mother and been shunned by his father, Zabor grows up in the company of books, which teach him a new language. Ever since he can remember, he has been convinced that he has a gift: if he writes, he will stave off death; those captured in the sentences of his notebooks will live longer. Like a kind of inverted Scheherazade saving his fellow men, he experiments night after night with the delirious power of the imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then, one night, his estranged half brother and the other relatives who would disown him come knocking at the door: his father is going to die and perhaps only Zabor is capable of delaying that fateful moment. Sitting next to the father who has ostracized him, the son writes compulsively, retracing an existence characterized by strangeness, abandonment, and humiliation, but also by wondrous encounters with fictional worlds that he alone in the entire village can access.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKamel Daoud \u003c\/b\u003eis an Algerian journalist based in Oran, where he writes for the \u003ci\u003eQuotidien d'Oran\u003c\/i\u003e--the third largest French-language Algerian newspaper. He contributes a weekly column to \u003ci\u003eLe Point, \u003c\/i\u003eand his articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibération\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Le Monde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCourrier International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eamong others. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Meursault Investigation \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2015), was\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix François Mauriac and the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie. It was named a best book of the year by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Ramadan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis an educator and literary translator from French. She is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fulbright. Her translations include Abdellah Taïa's \u003ci\u003eA Country for Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, Kamel Daoud's \u003ci\u003eZabor, or The Psalms\u003c\/i\u003e, and Barbara Molinard's \u003ci\u003ePanics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768749392160,"sku":"9781635420142","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9238d1709d7fcc764f425342842121e2.webp?v=1780336457","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/zabor-or-the-psalms-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}