by Yasmina Khadra · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491040880
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«La última noche del Rais» is the novel by Yasmina Khadra, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Yasmina Khadra imagines in the first person the last hours of Muammar Gaddafi, hidden in a school in Sirte with few followers while reviewing his life: unstable childhood, first loves and messianic delusion of believing himself the incarnation of his people. The novel alternates the tyrant's arrogance with the vulnerability of the cornered man and reflects on the fall of dictators.
Translation from French by Wenceslao Carlos Lozano, published in the Alianza Literaria collection in October 2015.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in portraits of power and historical figures.
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.
