by Yasmina Khadra · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788411483995
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In 'The Virtuosos', Yasmina Khadra transports us to Algeria in 1914, where Yacín, a young man who has never left his neighborhood, receives a proposal that will change his life: to go to France to fight in the war instead of the caíd's son. In return, he is promised fortune and well-being for his family. Four years later, Yacín returns from the trenches with a new perspective on the world, beginning a new personal struggle. This work is considered by French critics to be Khadra's best novel, a story of losses, separations, and reunions in an era and place portrayed with mastery and emotion.
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.
