I chose this book for the category ” a book you bought on your last vacation”. That was my last vacation before I wrote the reading challenge . I was going for another one, but when the moment came to pick up the book, I was actually more tempted by this one.
Set in Algeria in the 30s, this book if first and foremost a story of love. The love of a country. Algeria, loved both by its natives and the French born there. It’s an epic story of frienship, love and heartaches of all kinds, but also honor and cultural differences. Younes, later called Jonas, the protagonist, tells us his story. The story of his family, interwoven with the story of his country, and in the midst of it all, how he lives that story, how he grows and changes. He is full of emotions that he shares.
Yasmina Khadra has a beautiful writing style. Poetic but direct, not always soft. He knows how to play with emotions and words to create the best impact. He knows when a beautiful sentence can convey in a few words the most powerful feelings, and when one word is enough to say it all. I will definitely be reading more books of that author. It was one of his titles that once caught my eye, I read the back cover and thought I would read it but didn’t buy the book on the spot. When I remembered his name and looked for it in Strasbourg, that specific title wasn’t available, so I decided to just pick one. This book is definitely of my top 5 of the year.
Who, or which book, is on your top 5 reads of the year? Would you want to read this one?
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