The Pillar of Salt
by:
Albert Memmi (author)
A semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia.
A semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807083277 (0807083275)
ASIN: 807083275
Publish date: February 1st 1992
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
This is a well-written novel about the life of a Jewish Tunisian boy, growing up in the years leading up to WW2. It is generally considered to be autobiographical, and though the narrator’s name is not the author’s, it reads more like a memoir than a novel: it records Alexandre’s memories and though...