Description
In this searing novel, Nafa Walid’s “naive dreams” collide with the corrosive forces of frustration and political violence, revealing how despair can be recruited into ideology. As Algeria’s identity is contested, the story traces a disturbing transformation—moving from longing and obsession toward a “becoming-wolf” that seeks to impose rigid, absolutist definitions of nationhood. Woven with Khadra’s characteristic moral clarity, the book interrogates the entanglement of corruption, fundamentalism, and brutality while asking what it means to make sense of violence through literature. Ultimately, it argues for a profoundly humanistic alternative: a country can only endure by embracing tolerance across its many religious, linguistic, regional, cultural, and political factions.
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paperback
Toby Press
Published Aug 15, 2006
260 pages
ISBN: 9781592641864
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First Published
2003
Language
eng
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