Vhere is a Goncourt Prize which makes you proud to be French, to the point that when I heard the news, I had tears in my eyes: despite the bawls of the LFI neo-collabos at the Palais-Bourbon, France is still the homeland of courage .
There is bad committed literature, like that of Jean-Paul Sartre and his epigones. There are also great committed but inspired books which have the ambition to repair, shake up or change the world. Houris, by Kamel Daoud, is in this vein.
If this captivating novel releases such power, it is because with incredible sincerity, it makes the dead, the forgotten, the victims of the Islamists and the “black decade” speak, which the Algerian state, after having decided to national reconciliation, covered with shovelfuls of earth. And there you have it, a miracle of…
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