{"product_id":"zabor-or-the-psalms-9781635420142","title":"Zabor, or the Psalms","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best World Literature of the Year \u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-9161583\"\u003eKamel Daoud\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635420142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1635420148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC051000\"\u003eCultural Heritage\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC043000\"\u003eComing of Age\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC061000\"\u003eMagical Realism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Ramadan\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she co-owns Riffraff bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN\/Heim Translation Fund grant, a Fulbright, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNot One Day\u003c\/i\u003e by Anne Garréta, \u003ci\u003ePretty Things\u003c\/i\u003e by Virginie Despentes, \u003ci\u003eThe Shutters\u003c\/i\u003e by Ahmed Bouanani, and \u003ci\u003eMe \u0026amp; Other Writing\u003c\/i\u003e by Marguerite Duras.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Other Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693517902061,"sku":"9781635420142","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_64e57bc1-bf05-4155-aa10-279f24ac44e6.jpg?v=1649859808","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/zabor-or-the-psalms-9781635420142","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}