Conference, meeting, debate
On the occasion of the release of her latest novel “Cœur-d’Almond”, Yasmina Khadra will be present at the Fabrique Atrium on Thursday October 17, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Yasmina Khadra / © Ana Portnoy
Yasmina Khadra is an Algerian writer born January 10, 1955. Author of around thirty works, he has been translated and published in around fifty countries. His style, both brutal and poetic, seduces the public and critics, but also filmmakers, comic artists and playwrights who continue to adapt his works in the four corners of the world.
Synopsis “Heart of Almond”
At the foot of the Sacré Coeur where he lives, life has not spoiled Nestor. Rejected at birth by his mother who couldn’t stand that he was abnormally small, he lives with his grandmother who took him in and whom he adores. She provides for their needs with her meager pension as a French teacher while her grandson, driven by tireless vitality and incurable optimism, seeks and finds a thousand opportunities to improve their ordinary lives in this district of Barbès where all peoples, all destinies, all despairs intertwine.
But, the day the old lady begins to lose her mind and must be placed in a retirement home, her daughter decides to sell the apartment which is the only refuge for this son whom she still does not want to know. For Nestor, everything collapses. What remains is the violence of his dreams and the words his grandmother taught him. These words that he will throw on paper to shout out this rage for life that inhabits him. In the neighborhood, his friends nickname him “Almond Heart”.
