{"id":1604,"date":"2018-05-27T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1604"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:33:26","slug":"a-passenger-from-the-west","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/a-passenger-from-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"A Passenger from the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/nabile-fares\">Nabile Far\u00e8s<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>A Passenger from the West<\/h3>\n<h4>(Un Passager de l\u2019occident)<\/h4>\n<h4>Translated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/peter-thompson\">Peter Thompson<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Introduction by Pierre Joris<\/h4>\n<p>ISBN: 978-1-944884-45-1 (pbk.)<br \/>\n978-1-944884-46-8 (ebook)<br \/>\n(June, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In 1970, Nabile Far\u00e8s was asked to interview James Baldwin for <em>Jeune Afrique<\/em> magazine, an experience which set in motion <em>A Passenger from the West<\/em>. What begins in this book as an interview with Baldwin confronting the history of Black America leads Far\u00e8s into a journey through his own past. Vivid encounters in France and Spain connect with Far\u00e8s\u2019s remembrances of his native Algeria, its war for independence, and the traumatizing effect it had on him as a child.<br \/>\nThe original<em> Jeune Afrique<\/em> interview with Baldwin is included as an appendix to the novel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\nIt is Far\u00e8s\u2019s unique sensitivity to the power of allegory that gives his work its distinctive place in Maghrebi literature. His work marks a turning point and foreshadows the tragedy to come in Algeria.<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>R\u00e9da Bensma\u00efa<\/strong>, Brown University<\/p>\n<p>\nHere, in this unique, multicultural space, Far\u00e8s engages the diverse complexities of our globalized age before we even knew they existed.<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Val\u00e9rie K. 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