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Tahar Djaout<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Bone Seekers<\/h3>\n

(Les chercheurs d\u2019os<\/b>)<\/h4>\n

Translated by Marjolijn de Jager<\/h4>\n

ISBN: 978-1-944884-49-9 (pbk.)
\n978-1-944884-50-5 (ebook)<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you speak, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak and die.\u201d\u2014Tahar Djaout<\/b><\/p>\n

Algeria, just after Independence. The inhabitants of a small Kabylian village go in search for the remains of their fighters who, during the war of liberation, fell here, there, and everywhere. They want to bury them a second time, at home, where they belong. Accompanied by a relative, an adolescent joins the \u201cbone seekers\u201d in search of his older brother\u2019s remains. It is the first time the boy has left his village, and he will stumble upon a new universe. But why retrieve his brother\u2019s bones when he can\u2019t even be sure they are really his? Why bury them in the village that his brother hated so much when he was alive? What is the quest for but to reassure the survivors, so they can be rid of their own specters?<\/p>\n

When the mission is over and he returns to his people with his macabre burden, the journey has transformed him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA mix of seriousness and irony that sets the tone for a bitter denunciation.\u201d \u2014La D\u00e9p\u00eache de Kabylie<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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