Le village de l'Allemand, ou, Le journal des frères Schiller : roman / Boualem Sansal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sansal, Boualem, author.

Series:

Nrf.

Nrf

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Brothers--Fiction.

Brothers.

Families.

Algeria.

Families--Algeria--Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Algerian fiction (French).

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

263 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Journal des frères Schiller

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : Gallimard, [2008]

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...

Other Format:

Online version: Sansal, Boualem. Village de l'Allemand, ou, Le journal des frères Schiller.

ISBN:

9782070786855

2070786854

OCLC:

190837226

Publisher Number:

9782070786855