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Author Ṭībāwī, Aḥmad, author.

Title The disappearance of Mr Nobody / Ahmed Taibaoui ; translated by Jonathan Wright
Published Cairo : Hoopoe, 2023

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Summary "In Rouiba, a nondescript suburb of Algiers, an unnamed man with a troubled past escapes his everyday life to find himself caring for an old man with dementia. When the man dies, the carer disappears into thin air. A police detective is assigned to investigate the circumstances of the old man's demise and to track down the caretaker, only to find that the unnamed man cannot be identified-that there is no trace of Mr. Nobody. The officer's search leads him to those whose paths once crossed Mr. Nobody's. In each of them he finds a reflection of the man he is looking for. A raw, lyrical portrait of life on the margins in contemporary Algiers, this haunting noir captures an underworld of police informers, shady imams, bootleg beer traders, and grave robbers, and reverberates with echoes of Algeria's violent past."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Octpber 17, 2022)
Subject Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction
Caregivers -- Fiction
Caregivers.
Missing persons -- Investigation.
SUBJECT Algiers (Algeria) -- Fiction
Subject Algeria -- Algiers.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Wright, Jonathan, 1953- translator.
ISBN 9781649032171
164903217X
9781649032164
1649032161
Other Titles Ikhtifāʼ al-sayyid lā aḥad. English