by Yasmina Khadra · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429763201
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In the Algeria of 1930, Younes, a nine-year-old boy, is entrusted to a wealthy family. Under the name of Jonas, he lives a full childhood and adolescence with his French colonist friends. The arrival of Emilie, a splendid young woman, puts the friendship of the young people to the test, divided between loyalty and selfishness. In the midst of a tumultuous Algeria and a bloody war, Jonas faces a dilemma: he cannot break the bonds of an exceptional friendship, but neither can he renounce the values instilled by his ancestors.
Mohammed Moulessehoul, better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra, is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on the Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy.
