by Mohammed Dib · Epoché · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788888983035
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«La casa grande» is the novel by Mohammed Dib, published by Epoché in paperback (168 pages, in Italian).
In «La casa grande», Omar, a ten-year-old boy, grows up in colonial Algeria before the Second World War, in Dar-Sbitar: an old barracks with a central courtyard where poor families eke out a living. With a raw and poetic style, the narrative links hunger and fear of the police with the awakening of social consciousness.
«La casa grande» is the first instalment of Mohammed Dib's «Algérie» trilogy, originally published in French in 1952 under the title «La Grande Maison». The Italian edition by Epoché dates from 2004.
For readers interested in classics of Maghrebi literature and in stories about childhood and everyday life in colonial Algeria.
