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Angels Die by KHADRA, YASMINA
Category: Fiction
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 a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. So when his ...Show more
The African Equation by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
"Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish."--Los Angeles Times "A skilled storyteller working at the height of his powers."--Times Literary Supplement "Like all the great storytellers of history, [Khadra] espouses the contradictions of his characters ...Show more
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of "The Swallows of Kabul" comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism.Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired and respected member of his community, he has carved a spa ...Show more
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
Ammine, a surgeon in a Jerusalem hospital, struggles to cope with the mangled bodies of victims of a suicide bombing in a downtown Jerusalem pizza restaurant. He is harassed, well-meaning, utterly dedicated and professional âÃÂàand a naturalised Israeli Arab. When the police pin responsibility ...Show more
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
Dr. Amin Jaafie, an Israeli Arab, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his work, respected and admired by his colleagues and community, he represents integration at its most successful. He has learned to live with the violence and chaos that plague his city, and on the night of a deadly ...Show more
The Dictator's Last Night by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
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 war, Muammar Gaddafi is hiding out in his home town of Sirte along with his closest advisors. In t ...Show more
The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man from a small desert village returns home, where he witnesses three events that transform him. First, American soldiers at a checkpoint kill the sweet and beloved "village idiot." Several days later, an American plane b ...Show more
The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man returns home to his small desert village, where he witnesses three unspeakable acts of violence committed by American soldiers. Consumed by a desire for revenge, the youth returns to the city where is he is taken in by ...Show more
The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Fiction
A masterful and chilling look at violence and its effects on ordinary people, this tale explores the depths of human nature and shows that, even in the most horrific circumstances, good can prevail."
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (tr from French John Cullen)
Category: Fiction
Moshen and his wife, Zunaira, met at the university and once looked forward to a happy and prosperous life together. But Moshem's dream of becoming a diplomat, halted by the war with Russia, dies with the ascendancy of the Taliban. Zunaira, formerly a lawyer who worked for women's rights, can no longer ...Show more
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
Category: Biography Memoir
An extraordinary novel of life under the Taliban "Yasmina Khadra's characters are the grandchildren of Camus. We emerge from this bitterly and tragically beautiful book, crushed." L'Express