by Isabelle Eberhardt, Inmaculada Jiménez Morell · Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487198632
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«País de arena» is a collection of Algerian short stories by Isabelle Eberhardt, published by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Stories inspired by the experience of Isabelle Eberhardt, who travelled through Algeria dressed as an Arab knight in search of her own identity. They combine a love of the desert and nomadic life with criticism of French colonisation and a longing for freedom.
It belongs to number 1 of the Letras del Oriente y del Mediterráneo collection. It is the second, revised and expanded edition, published in April 2000, translated by Inmaculada Jiménez Morell.
For readers of travel literature and stories set in Algeria and the desert, as well as for those interested in the figure of Isabelle Eberhardt.
Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interested in North Africa, and was considered a proficient writer on the subject despite learning about the region only through correspondence. After an invitation from photographer Louis David, Eberhardt moved to Algeria in May 1897. She dressed as a man and converted to Islam, eventually adopting the name Si Mahmoud Saadi. Eberhardt's unorthodox behaviour made her an outcast among European settlers in Algeria and the French administration.
