The Last Summer of Reason

Djaout, Tahar

ISBN 10: 1886913579 / ISBN 13: 9781886913578

Published by Ruminator Books, 2003

About this Item

145 pages. Clean, good spine. Foreword by Wole Soyinka. The story of a noble yet flawed bookseller's resistance to violent, right theocracy. Translated from the French;

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Summer of Reason
• Publisher: Ruminator Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886913579
• ISBN 13: 9781886913578
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

The Last Summer of Reason, found among assassinated Algerian writer Tahar Djaout's papers after his death, tells the elegant, haunting story of a bookseller's fight against radical fundamentalism.

This brief, intense novel is a powerful and timely indictment of terror and closed-mindedness throughout the world, and a fitting final statement from this acclaimed writer and tireless fighter for democracy.

Praise for the hardcover edition:

"One is reminded of how life-affirming and dangerous literature still can be."-Minneapolis Star Tribune

"I hope . . . readers find Djaout's little book, even if it is filled with more questions than answers."-USA Today

"An elegiac ode to literature and a furious protest against intolerance-The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Tahar Djaout (1954–93) was an Algerian novelist, poet, and journalist, and the author of twelve books, including Les vigiles, winner of the Prix Méditerranée. An outspoken critic of the extremism stirring his nation, he was assassinated by an Islamic fundamentalist group. The manuscript of this novel was found among his papers after his death. Marjolijn de Jager teaches Dutch and French language and translation at New York University. Wole Soyinka is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the author of more than thirty books. Alek Baylee Toumi is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and the author of the play Madah-Sartre, available in a Bison Books edition.