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Angels Die (Paperback)
Yasmina Khadra; Translated by Howard Curtis
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"A writer who can understand man wherever he is." "The New York
Times"Khadra's prose is gentle and precise." "The New Yorker"As a
child living in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. When
his family find a home in the city anything seems possible. Through
a succession of menial jobs, the constants for Turambo are rage at
the injustice surrounding him, and a reliable left hook. A boxing
apprenticeship offers Turambo a choice.Yasmina Khadra is the pen
name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. He is the author
of more than twenty novels, including "The Swallows of Kabul."
'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is
our son'. Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken
parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle.
Re-named Jonas, he grows up in a colourful colonial Algerian town,
and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring
bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake. He
meets Emilie - a beautiful, beguiling girl who captures the hearts
of all who see her - and an epic love story is set in motion. Time
and again Jonas is forced to to choose between two worlds: Algerian
or European; past or present; love or loyalty, and finally decide
if he will surrender to fate or take control of his own destiny at
last. AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.
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Attack (Hardcover)
Loic Dauvillier, Glen Chapron; Originally written by Yasmina Khadra; Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
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The Attack opens with Amin Jaafari, an Israeli surgeon of
Palestinian after the deadly attack, an Israeli police officer
informs Jaafari that the suicide bomber was his wife, Sihem.
Believing her to be on an overnight trip, he completely refuses to
accept the accusation. They were leading an ideal life in Tel Aviv,
moving among both Arab and Israeli society with ease, or so Jaafari
thought. But then he receives a posthumous message from Sihem
confirming the worst. Desperate to understand how he missed even
the slightest clue, Jaafari leaves the relative security of Israel
and enters the Palestinian territories to find the fanatics who
recruited her. In search of the truth, he confronts a reality that
he had refused to see. This book was first published as the French
novel L'Attentat by Yasmina Khadra in 2005. One year later,
L'Attentat was translated into English as The Attack and it
garnered international praise: 'A fierce rendering of geopolitical
tensions and a plea for peace' (The New York Times); 'Audaciously
conceived, courageously important [and] urgently humane' (The Los
Angeles Times). It was translated into more than 20 languages and
sold over 600,000 copies. Then in 2012, the original French book
went into graphic form with the release in 2012 of L'Attentat by
Loic Dauvillier and Glen Chapron. This has now been translated into
English by Ivanka Hahnenberger - the book featured here. The Attack
is a poignant tragedy that mixes the intimacy of grief and betrayal
with the futility of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It makes no
judgment and takes no side. Chapron's masterful illustrations and
astute text are wrought with the despair and hope of Jaafari's
search. The raw humanity of the story raises more questions than
can be answered. Timely and affecting, The Attack is an essential
purchase.
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Cousin K (Paperback, 0th edition)
Yasmina Khadra; Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Alyson Waters; Afterword by Robert Polito
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"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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The Attack (Paperback)
Yasmina Khadra; Translated by John Cullen
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Tel Aviv. A suicide bomber has killed 19 in a packed city centre
restaurant. Dr Amin Jaafie, an Israeli Arab, is a surgeon at a
nearby hospital. Respected and admired by his colleagues, the
doctor represents integration at its most successful. But this
night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn as
his beloved wife's body is found among the dead... could she have
caused the devestation? From the graphic, shocking description of
the bombing that opens the novel to its searing conclusion, The
Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its costs. Intense and
humane, thoughtful, sensitive and heartfelt, it displays a profound
understanding of that which can seem incomprehensible.
Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his
beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen's
dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no
longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. Atiq is a
jailer who guards those who have been condemned to death; the
darkness of prison and the wretchedness of his job have seeped into
his soul. Atiq's wife, Musarrat, is suffering from an illness no
doctor can cure. Yet, the lives of these four people are about to
become inexplicably interwined, through death and imprisonment to
passion and extraordinary self-sacrifice. The Swallows of Kabul is
an astounding and elegiac novel of four people struggling to hold
on to their humanity in a place where pleasure is a deadly sin and
death has become a banality.
The third novel in Yasmina Khadra's bestselling trilogy about
Islamic fundamentalism has the most compelling backdrop of any of
his novels: Iraq in the wake of the American invasion.
A young Iraqi student, unable to attend college because of the war,
sees American soldiers leave a trail of humiliation and grief in
his small village. Bent on revenge, he flees to the chaotic streets
of Baghdad where insurgents soon realize they can make use of his
anger. Eventually he is groomed for a secret terrorist mission
meant to dwarf the attacks of September 11th, only to find himself
struggling with moral qualms. "The Sirens of Baghdad" is a powerful
look at the effects of violence on ordinary people, showing what
can turn a decent human being into a weapon, and how the good in
human nature can resist.
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