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'In a voice as dim as a lighthouse on a rainy night, he said,
"Beware of loving a woman who loves bridges."'
______________________ Once upon a September in Paris... Still
heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring,
elusive novelist Hayat, the narrator of The Dust of Promises finds
himself adrift in Paris, where he has come to receive a photography
award. His photograph of a traumatised war-orphan has been declared
profoundly affecting by the judges, but he knows that no picture
can ever fully capture the desolation and destruction he has
witnessed in his Algerian homeland. When he stumbles into an art
exhibition on one of the capital's side streets, he is struck by
the power of the paintings and feels impelled to learn more about
the artist - an Algerian exile whose painful longing for the
country he has lost shines out of his work. The artist is none
other than Khaled, the man who haunted the pages of Hayat's first
novel, just as the narrator was inextricably entangled in her
second. As the two men embark on a tentative friendship, a twist of
fate brings Hayat herself to France, where the destinies of all of
them will once again collide. The final novel in the international
bestselling trilogy from 'the literary phenomenon' (Elle) Ahlem
Mosteghanemi, The Dust of Promises is a haunting, elegiac story of
love, memory and betrayal - and of what it means to come home.
______________________ 'Remarkable, insightful ... The elegiac
quality is present not just in the themes, but also in the
astonishingly poetic language throughout ... I stopped and
marvelled every few pages ... This is one of the richest and most
evocative books that I have read all year' Independent 'Ahlem has
carved a place for herself as one of the most important writers of
the Arab world' Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director, winner of the
Cannes Film Lifetime Achievement Award
Khaled, a former revolutionary in the Algerian war of liberation
has been in self-exile in Paris for two decades, disgusted by the
corruption that now riddles the country he once fought for. Now a
celebrated painter, Khaled is consumed with passion for Hayat, the
daughter of his old revolutionary commander, who unexpectedly
reenters Khaled's life. Hayat had been just a child when he last
saw her, but she has now become a seductive young novelist. The
first novel in an award-winning, bestselling trilogy that spans
Algeria's tumultuous recent history, The Bridges of Constantine is
a lyrical and heartrending love story
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