{"product_id":"the-wound-9780803239876","title":"The Wound","description":"\"Where is your wound?\" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to \u003ci\u003eThe Wound\u003c\/i\u003e. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in \"the Events\" that people have tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian War.\u003cbr\u003e Chronicling the lives of two cousins--Bernard and Rabut--both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting effects this event had on the men who were involved. Through the fragments of their stories we see the whole history of the war: its atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched--and France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that wounded men may even become the wound itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurent Mauvignier is the author of several novels in French and is the winner of four literary prizes, including the Prix Wepler. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid and Nicole Ball, both independent translators in Northampton, Massachusetts, have published several translations separately as well as together, including Abdourahman A. Waberi's \u003ci\u003eIn the United States of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2009). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNick Flynn is a writer of poetry, fiction, and memoir. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Reenactments: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ticking Is the Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735896883474,"sku":"9780803239876","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a48d807-3214-4ccd-b104-bf2db6d62cbf.jpg?v=1763544554","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wound-9780803239876","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}