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Belly of the Atlanticby Fatou Diome, Ros SchwartzISBN 1852429038 (1-85242-903-8)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Black Dockerby Sembene Ousmane, Ros SchwartzISBN 0435908960 (0-435-90896-0)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Book of the Dragonby Montse Sant, Ciruelo, Ros SchwartzISBN 1850282145 (1-85028-214-5)
Softcover, Pgw
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Book of the Dragonby Montse Sant, Ciruelo, Ros SchwartzISBN 0879519088 (0-87951-908-8)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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Dead Horsemeatby Dominique Manotti, Ros Schwartz , Amanda HopkinsonISBN 1900850826 (1-900850-82-6)
Softcover, Arcadia Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Horsemeat'Book summary:Dominique Manotti is among the raciest and most incisive writers in France today. Dead Horsemeat is an inside account of horse-racing and drug-trafficking, political intrigue and criminal intent, public corruption and human decency. As the May '68 generat [via]
The Enigma of Islamist Violenceby Luis Martinez, Laetitia Bucaille, Amelie Blom, Ros Schwartz , John AthertonISBN 0231700024 (0-231-70002-4)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Face of the Shadowby Ros Schwartz , Erik L' HommeISBN 0439656664 (0-439-65666-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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A History of Scientific Thought: Elements of a History of Scienceby Ros Schwartz , Erik L' HommeISBN 0631177396 (0-631-17739-6)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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I Who Have Never Known Menby Jacqueline Harpman, Ros SchwartzISBN 1888363436 (1-888363-43-6)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Pr
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Inside The Mind Of A Killerby Jacqueline Harpman, Ros SchwartzISBN 1861976569 (1-86197-656-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibilityby Therese Delpech, Ros SchwartzISBN 0231700067 (0-231-70006-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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La Prisonniere: Twenty Years in a Desert Goalby Ros Schwartz , Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Malika Oufkir, Michele FitoussiISBN 0553813021 (0-553-81302-1)
Hardcover, Bantam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Prisonniere: Twenty Years in a Desert Goal'Book summary:La Prisonniere topped the French bestseller lists for many weeks, selling well over 100,000 copies, but one's initial reaction is that something must have got lost in the translation. The style is dour, to say the least, and the opening chapters contain a catalogue of unnecessary family information that may have the reader nodding off. Curiously, though, as the pace of the action heats up, the deadness of the prose comes into its own. This is not a story that needs to be oversold and reads all the better for its minimalist delivery. The bare bones of the book are classic derring-do adventure, and Hollywood almost certainly has its eyes on the film rights--complete with American cast.
Malika Oufkir was born into a well-connected Moroccan family and when she was five years old she was chosen to be the special companion of Lalla Mina, King Muhammad V's daughter. Malika was taken away from her family and remained confined within the palace at Rabat for 14 years. She then had two years of vague normality before her father, General Oufkir, was implicated in an assassination attempt on Muhammad's successor, King Hassan II. The General was executed and Malika and the rest of her family were slung into a remote desert gaol where they remained for 15 years. Their release was only secured after they tunnelled their way out of the prison and remained at liberty for five days. The resulting furore after their recapture led to the family being transferred to house arrest and it was not until 1996 that the they were able to leave the country.
If the action drives the narrative, it is the clashes between Middle-Eastern and Western culture that are the most telling. Even in the 1960s, it was de rigueur for the King to have a harem full of concubines, and throughout the book one senses the tension between the materialistic, hedonistic indulgence of the ruling elite and their conformity to Muslim culture. Oufkir is a keen observer of her own injustices, but is rather slower on the uptake when it comes to the wider injustices of a despotic regime. --John Crace [via]
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Large Creaturesby Ros Schwartz , Sarah SnakeISBN 2745204688 (2-7452-0468-8)
Hardcover, Elsa Editions
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The Mistress of Silenceby Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline HarpmanISBN 1860463231 (1-86046-323-1)
Hardcover, Harvill Press
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The Netby Ilie Nastase, Ros SchwartzISBN 0312010702 (0-312-01070-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Normandy and the Seineby Ros SchwartzISBN 1853651559 (1-85365-155-9)
Softcover, McCarta
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The Return to Beirutby Andree Chedid, Ros SchwartzISBN 1852421495 (1-85242-149-5)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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The Star of Algiersby Aziz Chouaki, Lulu Norman, Ros SchwartzISBN 1852429240 (1-85242-924-0)
Softcover, Serpent's Tail Limited
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The Star Of Algiersby Ros Schwartz , Lulu Norman, Aziz ChouakiISBN 1555974120 (1-55597-412-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Star Of Algiers'Book summary:The Star of Algiers powerfully depicts youth in distress, caught between the lure of the West and the mosque." BIBA[via]
We share his stage fright before each new gig. We are fired with his boundless energy. And once weve taken off, we come crashing down with him . . . Everything is human, alive and transparent. Elle, France
Moussa Massys ambitions extend far beyond the three-room apartment he shares with the other thirteen members of his family in Algiers. A gifted performer of modern Kabyle song, he is as inspired by Prince and Michael Jackson as he is by Arab and Algerian traditional music. His first taste of fame, however, is brief, as the conflict between the fundamental Islamic group FIS and the more progressive FLN grows more violent and the city comes to a standstill amid corruption and scandal. As his music career begins to disintegrate, like the city itself, Massys driving passion for music turns to unforgiving rage.
In energetic, urgent prose, Aziz Chouaki vividly portrays the harsh realities of a country in constant turmoil and brilliantly shows the capacity for despair and hatred of those who have nothing left to lose. Available for the first time in English, The Star of Algiers, a novel of great passion and originality, touches on the most contentious issues of our time.
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jailby Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi, Ros SchwartzISBN 0786886307 (0-7868-8630-7)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail'Book summary:A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller--the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Adopted by the king at the age of five, Malika spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the seclusion of the court harem, one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, surrounded by luxury and extraordinary privilege. Then, on August 16, 1972, her father was arrested and executed after an attempt to assassinate the king. Malika, her five younger brothers and sisters. and her mother were immediately imprisoned in a desert penal colony. After fifteen years, the last ten of which they spent locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed to dig a tunnel with their bare hands and make an audacious escape. Recaptured after five days, Malika was finally able to leave Morocco and begin a new life in exile in 1996. A heartrending account in the face of extreme deprivation and the courage with which one family faced its fate, Stolen Lives is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey to freedom. [via]
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Hardcover, Hyperion Books - Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail: ISBN 0786886307 (0-7868-8630-7)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Theo's Odysseyby Steve Cox, Catherine Clement, Ros SchwartzISBN 1559704993 (1-55970-499-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Walking the Pyreneesby Steve Cox, Catherine Clement, Ros SchwartzISBN 1853651656 (1-85365-165-6)
Softcover, McCarta
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Women in Evidenceby Sebastien Japrisot, Ros SchwartzISBN 0452281628 (0-452-28162-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Evidence'Book summary:Sebastien Japrisot loves a mystery. In his award-winning World War I tale, A Very Long Engagement, he sent his beguiling heroine Mathilde Donnay on a high-stakes scavenger hunt to discover which of five condemned French soldiers--one of them her fiancé--may have evaded execution. Women in Evidence, Japrisot's sixth novel, set in the years following World War II, chronicles another woman's search for answers about her lover's fate. This time his death is not in question, but the identity of his killer certainly is. For this young man--is his name Vincent or Beau-Masque, Tony or Francis or Christophe?--has had many lovers, and each one, it seems, has good reason to want him dead. Rashomon-like, Japrisot reveals the victim's life from many different perspectives. First, a young bride recounts how she was kidnapped on her wedding night by an escaped convict named Vincent whom she shoots when he rejects her. Next, a prostitute named Belinda discovers a young man named Tony bleeding in the kitchen of her brothel; he tells her he has assumed the identity of her ex-lover in order to help him escape from prison. Caroline, a schoolteacher, relates how an escaped prisoner named Eddie broke into her house, an event that triggers some pretty torrid fantasies in this repressed widow's brain. Eight women in all, with eight different takes on this mysterious young man. And though each tale differs significantly from the others, a few salient details carry over from story to story: a spurned bridegroom left in his pajamas by the side of the road; the murdered daughter of a powerful man; a prison break. Yet the accounts differ so radically--whom is the reader to believe?
The women's testimony is being collected by Marie-Martine Lepage, a lawyer and one of the dead man's many loves who is trying to clear his name of a terrible crime. Her notations appear frequently in earlier chapters, commenting on, critiquing, and occasionally contradicting what the other women have said. Is she a narrator we can rely on? Perhaps not. In her own chapter, Marie-Martine informs us:
I am writing by the glow of a red light on my ceiling that stays on all night. It was a hard battle before they let me have a pencil and paper. They claim my condition deteriorates when I delve back into this affair. But who else could tell the rest of it?
So when she tells us that "his real name was in fact Christophe," can we really believe her? In Women in Evidence, Japrisot has accomplished two things: He has given distinctive voice to eight very different women, and in doing so he has crafted an intriguingly labyrinthine plot that will have you reading the final pages more than once as you try to unravel the puzzling tangle of contradictory evidence. And like the obstinate young man whose death lies at the heart of the tale, this novel is not entirely what it seems. Beneath its mystery-genre veneer is a smart and original meditation on the mutable boundaries of passion and the extremes to which love can lead. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Women in Evidence:
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