Summer Reading – No. 3 – The Mirliton of Heaven, by Albert Memmi

It's time for our weekly meeting!

This week, we offer you exoticism in the very form of this new summer reading: poetry! The great forgotten, the one that most of us never think about when we are looking for our next book. And yet... we can see in it, like Albert Memmi , "the essence of literature" , because it is the tool for expressing emotion - which, beyond the plot, the characters, the places, is perhaps the most important. The emotion that the author expresses, the one that the reader feels.

It is precisely a collection of poetry by Albert Memmi that we suggest you discover this week. Far from the philosopher of The Dominated Man or The Portrait of the Colonizer , The Mirliton of Heaven reveals the happy nostalgia that the author nourishes for his country of birth, Tunisia. A very beautiful and sensual journey through time, from the Hara district to Sidi Bou Saïd, from the little nothings of everyday life to religious holidays, to the discovery of Tunisian Jewish culture at the beginning of the 20th century.

Le mirliton du ciel, by Albert Memmi, is available as an ebook (PDF, ePub, Mobi) for €5.99 and in paperback for €13 .

Previous books:

- The chance of encounters, Joëlle Pétillot – News (08/07)

- The Princess of Sant Julia, by Hugues Lafontaine - Novel (15/07)