Shatz Adam
Shatz Adam - The Stone Face - Paperback
Shatz Adam - The Stone Face - Paperback
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Description: A roman clef about racism identity and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War - era France and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe another black American migr he makes new friends and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time however Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched beaten and arrested by the French police while much worse is to come it will turn out in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein an Algerian radical Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.
Title: The Stone Face
Author(s): Shatz Adam
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375168
Pages: 225 Pages
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A roman clef about racism identity and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War - era France and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe another black American migr he makes new friends and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time however Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched beaten and arrested by the French police while much worse is to come it will turn out in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein an Algerian radical Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.
Title: The Stone Face
Author(s): Shatz Adam
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375168
Pages: 225 Pages
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
