The disappearance of Mr. Nobody / a novel by Ahmed Taibaoui ; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ṭībāwī, Aḥmad, author.

Contributor:

Wright, Jonathan, 1953- translator.

Standardized Title:

Ikhtifāʼ al-sayyid lā aḥad. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Genre:

Noir fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

121 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Hoopoe, an imprint of AUC Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In Rouiba, a nondescript suburb of Algiers, an unnamed man with a troubled past escapes his everyday life to find himself caring for an old man with dementia. When the man dies, the carer disappears into thin air. A police detective is assigned to investigate the circumstances of the old man's demise and to track down the caretaker, only to find that the unnamed man cannot be identified-that there is no trace of Mr. Nobody. The officer's search leads him to those whose paths once crossed Mr. Nobody's. In each of them he finds a reflection of the man he is looking for. A raw, lyrical portrait of life on the margins in contemporary Algiers, this haunting noir captures an underworld of police informers, shady imams, bootleg beer traders, and grave robbers, and reverberates with echoes of Algeria's violent past."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781649032157

1649032153

9781649032140

1649032145

OCLC:

1313787255