'A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the
importance of literature.' Nick Hornby 'Truly potent ... Adimi
confronts us with episodes that are simply never spoken of in
France' The New York Times Book Review In 1936, a young dreamer
named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the
heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first
book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war,
Charlot's beloved bookshop has been closed for decades, living on
as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever.
But as a young man named Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to
understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that
sells books. A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of
Charlot's bookshop through the political drama of Algeria's
turbulent twentieth century of war, revolution and independence. It
is a moving celebration of books, bookshops and of those who dare
to dream.
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