{"product_id":"the-last-summer-of-reason-9780803215917","title":"The Last Summer of Reason","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoualem Yekker, a bookstore owner lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of \u003c\/i\u003eReason has acquired a new and haunting immediacy since the attacks of September 11. . . . Deftly translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager, and with a foreword by Wole Soyinka, the novel provides an anguished dispatch from what nearly became Algeria’s future. . . . An elegiac ode to literature and a furious protest against intolerance.”—Adam Shatz, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One is reminded of how life-affirming and dangerous literature still can be.”—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of Reason p\u003c\/i\u003erovides a powerful and strangely beautiful reminder of the danger of letting violent ideological fundamentalism fester. We would do well to heed this reminder now, not later.\"—Jennifer Bryson, \u003ci\u003ePublic Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroductionForewordSermon 1The Vigilant BrothersWhen will the quake happen?The summer when time stoppedPilgrim of the new timesThe Good whose substance the Almighty establishedThe nocturnal tribunalThe binding textA dream shaped like madnessThe future is a closed doorThe message suppressedFor that we will live, for that we will die...Therapists of the spiritOne should come from nowhereThe unknown arbiterBorn to have a bodyDoes death make noise as it moves? ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405241000279,"sku":"9780803215917","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803215917.jpg?v=1730489245","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-last-summer-of-reason-9780803215917","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}