2016/04/03

Official Postcard Sent To: Tatiana (Belarus)

Sent: 18/02/2016
Received: 27/03/2016


Postcards Id: DZ-8819

2016/03/30

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2016/03/03

kateb Yacine- Nedjma



Algerian Novel




Short Review:

Nedjma: is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is the symbol of Algeria ....

2016/03/02

Albert Camus- The Stranger



Novel
 
Short Review:

Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger, has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach,

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay- Elena Ferrante



Novel

Short Review:
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel,

Far From the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy



Novel

Short Review:

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, 

2016/03/01

Carla Buckley - The Things That Keep Us Here



Novel

Short Review:
Everything seems quiet on Ann Brooks’s suburban cul-de-sac. Despite her impending divorce, she’s created a happy home and her daughters are adjusting to the change. She feels lucky to be in a supportive community and confident that she can handle any other hardship that life may throw her way.....