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- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra, which chronicles the life of an Algerian boy torn between two worlds: his roots as an Arab, and the pied-noir community he has been adopted into. His quest to discover his own identity and a place where he truly belongs spans decades, during which he forms lasting friendships, witnesses the outbreak of the Algerian War, and crosses paths time and time again with Émilie, a beguiling young woman who might just be the love of his life. Yasmina Khadra is the pen-name of Mohammed Moulessehoul, an award-winning Algerian author.
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Yasmina Khadra
Algerian soldier and writer
Born in the Algerian Sahara in 1955.Notable works:The Swallows of Kabul (2002), novelThe Attack (2005), novelThe Sirens of Baghdad (2006), novelYasmina Khadra is the pseudonym of Mohammed Moulessehoul. His father was a nurse and his mother was a nomad, and he was born in the Algerian Sahara in 1955. He served as an officer in the Algerian army for 36 years, and published six novels under his real name before adopting various pen-names in order to evade military censorship. He specifically chose the name Yasmina Khadra in homage to his wife, as those are her two forenames. The choice of a female pseudonym was also a way for him to take a stance in the debate over emancipation for Muslim women.
He writes in French, but his works have been translated into many other languages, and several of them have been adapted for the screen.
What the Day Owes the Night
The love of a lifetime in colonial Algeria
Genre: novelReference edition: Khadra, Y. (2011) What the Day Owes the Night. Trans. Wynne, F. London: Vintage.1st edition: 2008Themes: love, friendship, war, identity crisisWhat the Day Owes the Night was first published in French in 2008. It chronicles the life of Younes, a young Algerian boy, whose father loses his fields to arson. He is then adopted by his uncle, a chemist, who introduces him to the pied-noir community (people of European ancestry who had immigrated to French Algeria) in the city of Oran. Strong friendships are forged, but they are tested with the arrival of the beautiful Émilie. When the Algerian War of Independence breaks out, everyone must choose a side while still finding their way through life.
The novel has won several literary awards, including the Prix Romans France Télévisions in 2008 and Prix des Lecteurs de Corse in 2009, as well as being voted the Best Novel of 2008 by the literary magazine Lire.
