by Assia Djebar · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420443515
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«Las noches de Estrasburgo» is the novel by Assia Djebar, published by Alfaguara in paperback (305 pages, in Spanish).
Thelja, an Algerian woman, arrives in Strasbourg to meet François, whom she met in Paris, and share nine nights of love. With her friend Eva she tours the city, while recalling her life in Algeria and her decision not to return. The novel interweaves her story with the conflicts of Muslim women, exile, and the new Europe.
Work translated from French by Manuel Serrat Crespo. Alfaguara Literaturas collection; original title: Les nuits de Strasbourg.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Algerian literature, exile, and the identity of Muslim women.
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
