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The influence peddlers

Kaddour, Hédi (author.). Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator. (translator.).

Summary: The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour's award-winning novel of clashing cultures during the French colonial years Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small North African city of the 1920s. Bring a collection of brash American filmmakers and celebrities into the picture. Dangerous cultural collisions are the inevitable result in Hédi Kaddour's best-selling novel of French colonial rule and its persisting legacy of human chaos and cultural tragedy. In this commanding novel, the author plumbs the contradicti.

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ISBN: 0300231571
ISBN: 9780300231571
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New Heaven : Yale University Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Frontmatter -- Contents -- PART I . THE SHOCK: NAHBÈS, NORTH AFRICA, THE EARLY 1920S -- 1. A Tree in the Wind -- 2. The Betrayal -- 3. Honored Guests -- 4. And ... Action! -- 5. A Quintal and a Half -- 6. The Old Woman and the Eggs -- 7. The Cow of Satan -- 8. A Sort of Tacit Agreement -- 9. At a Nice School -- 10. A Well-Planned Marriage -- 11. The Story of the Ice -- 12. A Lovely Summer -- 13. An Eye on Everything -- 14. Two Hatreds -- 15. At the Market -- 16. A Smiling Wife -- 17. Troubled Times -- 18. Big Problems -- PART II . THE GREAT VOYAGE: WINTER 1922-SPRING 1923 -- 19. The Jugurtha -- 20. Nights of Dreams -- 21. The Hand -- 22. Crossroads of Pain -- 23. Brother and Sister -- 24. A Night at Gabrielle's -- 25. A Taste for Wealth -- 26. Great Murmurings -- 27. A Liberated Country -- 28. The Suitor -- 29. Kinder des Vaterlands -- 30. For an Orchard -- 31. In an Occupied Country -- 32. The Smile on a Grilled Sheep's Head -- 33. Otto -- 34. Fascination -- 35. The Return -- PART III. ONE YEAR LATER: NAHBÈS, JUNE 1924 -- 36. A True Fox -- 37. Scaradère -- 38. A Mass Uprising -- 39. The Prépondérants -- 40. The Storm -- 41. The Hunt -- 42. An Edifying Spectacle -- 43. The Face -- 44. Ganthier's Party -- 45. The Blaster -- 46. The Barley Wind -- 47. Equal Pay for Equal Work -- 48. A Complex Operation -- 49. Beasts from Hell -- Glossary
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 11, 2017).