{"product_id":"the-wound-9780803239876","title":"The Wound","description":"\"Where is your wound?\" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to \u003ci\u003eThe Wound\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 to not talk about ever since: the Algerian War.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurent Mauvignier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.56w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803239876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurent Mauvignier is the author of several novels in French and is the winner of four literary prizes, including the Prix Wepler. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid and Nicole Ball, both independent translators in Northampton, Massachusetts, have published several translations separately as well as together, including Abdourahman A. Waberi's \u003ci\u003eIn the United States of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2009). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNick Flynn is a writer of poetry, fiction, and memoir. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Reenactments: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ticking Is the Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40138428219507,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ac9f4372-5598-4bc2-b842-ecf768df52e8.jpg?v=1654349651","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-wound-9780803239876","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}