Algerian Playwright's Novel Centers on Post-9/11 Theme

By Alan Cheuse
Published November 4, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST
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The Last Night of a Damned Soul, the first novel by Algerian playwright Slimane Benaissa to be translated into English, follows a young Arab-American man's entanglement in a terrorist plot. Hear reviewer Alan Cheuse.

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