The lovers of algeria
A Swiss woman, Anna, walks the paths of a cemetery in present-day Algiers. She is searching for two names, those of her children, murdered more th.. Lire la suite
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A Swiss woman, Anna,
walks the paths of a cemetery in present-day Algiers. She is searching
for two names, those of her children, murdered more than 40 years
previously by the FLN, the organization that fought for Algerian
independence from the French in the early 1960s and whose leaders were
convinced that the children's father, Nassreddine, was a traitor to
their cause.
Anna has returned to an Algeria rife with terrorism and
the excesses of fundamentalism. "The devil has entered our country, and
his footprints are everywhere," her friend Majid tells her as she sets
out, undaunted, disguised in Muslim dress, on a perilous quest to find
out whether the man she once loved is still alive. She is guided through
the harsh and beautiful landscape by Jallal, a boy who sells peanuts in
the Place des Martyrs. Captured by the militant "forces of Allah", the
woman and boy must witness and endure all manner of brutality and
degradation before Anna's and Nassreddine's destinies can finally
converge.
Anouar Benmalek's courageous novel confronts the
tragedy of Algeria, its immediate past and present, as no other writer
has done since Albert Camus, and in the process he tells a love story of
immense tenderness.
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