by Yasmina Khadra · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266144551
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«Cousine K» is the contemporary fiction novel by Yasmina Khadra, published by Pocket in paperback (107 pages, in French).
A young Algerian man in the postwar period, marked by his father's death, his mother's abandonment, and his brother's absence, becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin. His affection turns into a victim-executioner relationship: while she proves capricious and inaccessible, he seeks ways to possess her, and the story moves toward tragedy.
The novel was originally published in 2003; this Pocket edition came out in September 2005.
For readers of contemporary fiction and French literature who appreciate a brief narrative with a psychological tone.
Mohammed Moulessehoul, better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra, is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on the Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy.
