num_pages: 291
description: A tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of Aziz Arkoun who, at twenty-four, makes his way to America via the hold of an Algerian tanker and the icy waters of Boston harbor. Aziz soon finds himself a community of fellow Algerians, but their means of survival in this strange land begins to remind him of the dangerous world he was desperate to escape. As the story of Aziz and his friends unfolds, moving from East Boston and Brooklyn to Montreal and a North African army camp, Harbor takes us inside the ambiguities of these men's past and present lives. When Aziz discovers that he and his circle are most likely under surveillance, all assumptions, his and ours, dissolve in urgent, mesmerizing complexity.  
language: English
title: Harbor
titlecomplete: Harbor
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 400
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Cabell First Novelist Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
publisher: Vintage