by Yasmina Khadra · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266229340
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«L’équation africaine» is the contemporary fiction novel by Yasmina Khadra, published by Pocket in paperback (352 pages, in French).
After the death of his wife, German doctor Kurt Krausmann travels with his friend Hans on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. Somali pirates attack their ship and take them hostage; in captivity, Kurt shares confinement with Bruno, a French hostage who retains a gaze in love with Africa. The experience confronts him with the harshness of the continent and reveals an inner strength he did not know he had.
Originally published in 2011, the Pocket edition is from September 2012. The work won the Grand Prix de littérature Henri-Gal 2011.
For readers of contemporary fiction and French narrative interested in survival stories and the literary gaze on Africa.
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.
