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02379aam a22003738i 4500 001 5A119B0E8D2F11EB9F58E3DB45ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210325010006 008 200820s2021 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020030700 020 $a 1635420148 020 $a 9781635420142 035 $a (OCoLC)1157910218 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TOH $d CGL $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JTB $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ3989.3.D365 $b Z2313 2021 082 00 $a 843/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Daoud, Kamel, $e author. 240 10 $a Zabor ou les psaumes. $l English 245 10 $a Zabor, or the psalms : $b a novel / $c Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan. 264 1 $a New York : $b Other Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 372 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "A fable, parable, and confession, the second novel from the acclaimed author of The Meursault Investigation pays homage to the essential need for fiction and to the insolent freedom afforded by an adopted language. Having lost his mother and been shunned by his father, Zabor grows up in the company of books, which afford him a new language. Ever since he can remember, he has been convinced that he has a gift: if he writes, he will stave off death; those captured in the sentences of his notebooks will live for longer. Like a kind of inverted Scheherazade saving his fellow men, he experiments night after night with the delirious power of the imagination. On this particular evening, all the progeny of his stepmother come knocking at the door: his father is going to die and perhaps only Zabor is capable of delaying the fateful moment. Sitting next to the father who has ostracized him, the son writes compulsively, retracing an existence characterized by strangeness, abandonment, and humiliation, but also by wondrous encounters with countless fictional worlds that he alone in the entire village has ever had access to"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Authorship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Survival $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Ramadan, Emma, $e translator. 941 $a 5 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024438.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025012733.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20230131011631.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210702013018.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210325010050.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5A119B0E8D2F11EB9F58E3DB45ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search