by Yasmina Khadra · Julliard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266205382
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In a sweltering Kabul, amidst the ruins of disaster and the spirit, two men and two women search for meaning in their lives: a fallen bourgeois, a lawyer forbidden to practice, a jailer wasting away in the shadow of public executions, and a wife struggling with an incurable disease. Through their quest for human dignity, Yasmina Khadra portrays the martyrdom of a nation traumatized by war and madness, surrendered to the whims of gurus and the tyranny of the Taliban. This magnificent novel, which is also a hymn to women, lucidly reveals the complexity of behavior in Muslim societies torn between feudalism and modernity.
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.
