Ammine, a surgeon in a Jerusalem hospital, struggles to cope with the bodies of victims of a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem restaurant. When the police pin responsibility of the suicide attack on Ammine's wife, he is at first baffled and angry. But his feelings turn to confusion and sorrow when he discovers his wife was indeed behind the attack.
Ammine, a surgeon in a Jerusalem hospital, struggles to cope with the bodies of victims of a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem restaurant. When the polic...
The narrator of this story is a young man from a small desert village who is pulled into the radical insurgency engulfing Iraq. Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade, he has returned to his village where he witnesses a series of horrifying events that transform him.
The narrator of this story is a young man from a small desert village who is pulled into the radical insurgency engulfing Iraq. Forced to leave the Un...
Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle. Renamed Jonas, he grows up in a colourful colonial Algerian town, and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing, not even the Algerian Revolt, will shake.
Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle. Renamed Jonas, he grows up in ...
Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well. And such is the twisted logic of good and bad, right and wrong, knitted into this novella by one of the most powerful voices to emerge from North Africa in our time. With his father brutally killed as a traitor during a national liberation war and his older brother an army officer far away, the young narrator lives reclusively with his mother, who scorns him. He turns to his young cousin for affection, only to be mocked and humiliated so deeply that his love becomes hopelessly entangled with hatred....
Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well. And such is the twisted logic of good and bad, right and ...
