by Anouar Benmalek · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099453697
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«The Child of an Ancient People» is the historical novel by Anouar Benmalek, published by Vintage in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In 1872, Lislei flees the Paris Commune and Kader, an Arab prince, the Saharan revolt in Algeria. They board a sailing ship bound for Australia with Tridarrir, an orphan and the last Aboriginal Tasmanian. In the midst of British colonial expansion, their lives cross in an epic of adventure and love.
English translation of the original French novel «L'Enfant du peuple ancien», published in 2003.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, with an adventure plot and a nineteenth-century colonial backdrop.
Anouar Benmalek is an Algerian novelist, journalist, mathematician and poet. After the 1988 riots in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against Torture. His novel Lovers of Algeria was awarded the Prix Ragid. The novel, The Child of an Ancient People, won the Prix RFO du livre.
