The Poor Man's Son (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)
[A] thoughtful and long overdue English translation....The last third of the book, discarded by a Paris editor fifty years ago and restored here, is a revelation.(Book Forum)"Feraoun’s novel is more than just a testimony in which he recounts the daily life of his Berber mountain village, the emigration of his father to Paris, and especially his adolescent efforts to succeed in becoming a teacher rather than a simple shepherd. Through its austere authenticity and the modesty of its form, it became a classic for young Algerians, and marked, moreover, the birth of the post-colonial Francophone literature of the Maghreb.(Assia Djebar, author ofThe Women of Algiers in their Apartment)