Me and Haim
Habib Sayah
Me and Haim follows two Algerians, Jewish pharmacist Haim bin Maymun and Muslim philosophy teacher Arsalan Hanafi, grew up together in the same neighbourhood. Sharing food and memories, they attended the same primary school, secondary school and university, and face racism and provocations in Saida, Mascara, Algiers and Oran under the French. Their destinies have always been linked, and they both become involved in resistance to the occupation, struggling to free their homeland in their own way. The war separates them, and the day after it finishes everything will change.
Publisher
Dar Mim
Nomination
2019 Longlist
Habib Sayah
Country of origin Algeria
About the author
Habib Sayah is an Algerian writer and novelist, born in 1950. He obtained his BA in Literature from Oran University in 1980 and worked in Institutes of Technological Education. He has published 10 novels, including four translated into French: That Longing (1997), Tamassikht (2002), That Love (2002) and The Guilty Ones...The Colour of Their Blood on My Hands (2009). He has also translated books of prose and poetry into French. He was awarded the Abdelhamid ben Hadouga Prize for the Novel in 2003.