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"Where is your wound?" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound . By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in "the Events" that people have tried not to talk about ever since: the Algerian War. Chronicling the lives of two cousins--Bernard and Rabut--both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting effects this event had on the men who were involved. Through the fragments of their stories, we see the whole history of the war: its atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched--and France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that wounded men may even become the wound itself.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Wound
• Author: Laurent Mauvignier
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9780803239876
• ISBN: 0803239874
• ID: 04713388
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 217 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2014

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