Boualem Sansal is the Arab world’s most courageous and controversial novelist. His first novel to appear in English (An Unfinished Business/The German Mujahid, Bloomsbury/Europa) was the first work of fiction by an Arab writer to acknowledge the Holocaust in print. He started writing novels at the age of 50, shortly after retiring as a high-ranking official in the Algerian government. He was awarded the prestigious Prix du Roman Arabe in 2012, and the German Peace Prize in 2011.
Praise for 2084: The End of the World "2084 is a powerful novel
that celebrates resistance."
--The Guardian ""A powerful satire on an Islamist
dictatorship."
--The Spectator "Sharply satiric...it's worthwhile watching Sansal
dig fiercely into the essence of the all-controlling religious
belief he roundly condemns."
--Library Journal "Alison Anderson's deft and intelligent
translation of 2084 helps to overcome such binary thinking by
conveying Sansal's abhorrence of a system that controls people's
minds, while explaining that the religion was not originially evil
but has been corrupted. A moving and cautionary story."
--Kate Webb, The Times Literary Supplement "2084 is a rare,
powerful book, at the intersection of fable and lampoon,
of satire and science fiction."
--Lire
"The story is powerful, the humor, devastating . . . 2084 is an
exceptional book."
--Télérama
"Boualem Sansal is of the great voices of North Africa."
--Le Monde Cultures et Idées
"2084 is noir fiction à la Orwell."
--Le Monde "Sansal is our guide into absurdity and out of it, the
perfect guide through the fear and laughter we expend reading
2084."
--The Rain Taxi Review
Praise for "2084: The End of the World"
"2084 "is a rare, powerful book, at the intersection of fable and
lampoon,
of satire and science fiction.
"Lire
"
The story is powerful, the humor, devastating . . . "2084 "is an
exceptional book.
"Telerama
"
Boualem Sansal is of the great voices of North Africa.
"Le Monde Cultures et Idees
"
"2084 "is noir fiction a la Orwell.
"Le Monde""
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