it keeps finding me
I happened upon this book the summer of 2002 - which was an entire lifetime ago. But no matter where I seem to be, I keep chancing upon something that brings it back to mind. It's the most inspiring, thought-provoking, heart-wrenching book I've ever read.
The Last Summer of Reason
A bookseller battles the bizarre restrictions of a totalitarian regime in this final novel by Tahar Djaout, an Algerian novelist, poet and journalist who wrote the book just before being assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1993. The manuscript for this novel was found is his papers after his death, and so is in unfinished form.
"Silence is death. And you, if you speak, you die. If you are silent you die. So, speak and die."
The Last Summer of Reason
A bookseller battles the bizarre restrictions of a totalitarian regime in this final novel by Tahar Djaout, an Algerian novelist, poet and journalist who wrote the book just before being assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1993. The manuscript for this novel was found is his papers after his death, and so is in unfinished form.
"Silence is death. And you, if you speak, you die. If you are silent you die. So, speak and die."