by Assia Djebar · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429750447
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«Les nits d'Estrasburg» is the contemporary fiction novel by Assia Djebar, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).
Thelja, an Algerian woman in Paris preparing a thesis on art history, has an intense romance in Strasbourg with a much older Alsatian man. Over nine nights they share confidences about childhood in wartime, absent family and exile, in a border city where loving and speaking are acts of freedom.
Translated into Catalan by Anna Casassas from the original French Les Nuits de Strasbourg, it belongs to the El Balancí collection from Edicions 62.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking stories of love, exile and memory with a cultural backdrop.
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.
