"Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done
badly; evil done well." And such is the twisted logic of good and
bad, right and wrong, knitted into this novella by one of the most
powerful voices to emerge from North Africa in our time. With his
father brutally killed as a traitor during a national liberation
war and his older brother an army officer far away, the young
narrator lives reclusively with his mother, who scorns him. He
turns to his young cousin for affection, only to be mocked and
humiliated so deeply that his love becomes hopelessly entangled
with hatred. Fate places a young woman in the narrator's path when
he rescues her from a violent attack, and the reawakening of his
confused passions proceeds toward terrible vengeance. In this
nameless narrator's tormented reflections, played out against the
backdrop of an indifferent world, Yasmina Khadra plumbs the
mysteries of the crippled heart's desires.
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