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Series
Billy Boyle World War II mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Billy Boyle, an Irish-American cop who has become the personal private investigator of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, travels to Algeria in late 1942 to try to solve a series of murders involving French and American soldiers.
3) The plague
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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Esta obra transcurre en Argelia, a mediados del siglo XX, y narra la historia de Meursault, quien, pese a cualquier acontecimiento, sea bueno o malo, se muestra como un ser indiferente a la realidad por resultarle absurda e inabordable. Todo comienza con la muerte de su madre y así, Meursault, quien se encontraba por el momento en la ciudad de Argel, y en donde desempeña un trabajo sin ambición y sin futuro, viviendo una vida sin metas ni deseos,...
5) The stranger
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name--Musa--and...
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