The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody Taibaoui Ahmed
The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody Taibaoui Ahmed WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA "spare, well-crafted and compelling" (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without…
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The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody Taibaoui Ahmed
WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA "spare, well-crafted and compelling" (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he expectedIn 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. 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. When the man dies, the carer disappears into thin air.
Nobody's. The officer's search leads him to those whose paths once crossed Mr. 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
The Diary of a Nobody