Award-winning author Yasmina Khadra gives us a stunning panorama of life in Algeria between the two world wars, in this dramatic story of one man’s rise from abject poverty to a life of wealth and adulation. Even as a child living hand-to-mouth in...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘People say I am a megalomaniac. It is not true. I am an exceptional being, providence incarnate, envied by the gods, able to make a faith of his cause.’
October 2011. In the dying days of the Libyan civil...
"Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish." — LATimes
"A skilled storyteller working at the height of his powers." — TLS
"Like all the great storytellers of history,...
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...
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...
Un carcelero amargado que se deja llevar por la desgracia familiar, un universitario sin empleo, atrapado por la violencia retórica de los mulás, y dos mujeres a las que la realidad condena a una desesperada frustración, forman un...
Un peligroso asesino en serie es liberado por una negligencia de la Administración. Un joven policía disputa los amores de una mujer a un poderoso y temido miembro de la nomenklatura argelina. Cuando este último sufre un atentado,...