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“The story in this book is very simple. It’s a love story between Emilie, a French girl living in Algeria and Younes, who calls himself Jonas, to pass off as a more European person among his friends. He falls in love with her, but then, with the fight for independence, he’s torn between his native roots and world that’s exploited and this European way of life…It’s a beautiful, beautiful book. Yasmina Khadra writes beautifully, very simply. He’s underappreciated, I think. He uses a female name because he used to be a general in the army, so he was not allowed to write…So he took his wife’s name, and as a tribute, he decided to keep it. He’s written over 30 novels. He’s a global phenomenon: we all know Yasmina Khadra.” Read more...
Xavier Le Clerc, Novelist
