by Kamel Daoud · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330124281
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«Zabor ou Les psaumes» is the novel by Algerian writer Kamel Daoud published by Actes Sud in paperback (336 pages, in French).
Zabor, motherless and marginalized by his father, grows up among books, which give him a language of his own. He believes that writing delays death: whoever enters his notebooks gains more time to live. One night, a half-brother calls him to the bedside of his dying father. A fable and a parable about the power of fiction and the freedom of the word.
It is Kamel Daoud's second novel, originally published in 2017. The 2019 edition appears in Actes Sud's Babel collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction, especially those looking for fables about the power of writing and stories set in Algeria.
Kamel Daoud is an Algerian writer and journalist. He is best known for his 2013 novel Meursault, contre-enquête and his 2024 novel Houris.
