Description
In a seemingly ordinary village, daily life begins to warp as frustration hardens into suspicion and political violence seeps into every relationship. When a young man’s hopes for a better future collide with the machinery of fear, the community’s fragile bonds unravel—turning neighbors into informants and trust into a liability. Through the descent of a peaceful place into moral chaos, the novel explores how ideology, resentment, and opportunism can transform ordinary people into instruments of harm. Written with Yasmina Khadra’s incisive, human-centered intensity, the story illuminates a conflict largely unfamiliar to many English-speaking readers while asking what it really means to live “in the name of God.”
Available Editions
paperback
Toby Press
Published Jan 1, 2000
224 pages
ISBN: 9781902881119
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Details
First Published
2000
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In the Name of God by Yasmina Khadra.