Khadra's books are wonderful and I'm certainly glad that they
are now in print in English so I can 'force' them onto my
friends here....As EB says they are some of the best stuff to
come from France in the past decade...
Montois de D鴲oit
On 02/2/05 6:45 PM, "E.Borgers" <
wbac12034@tiscali.be> wrote:
>
> Last year I informed here about Yasmina Khadra, an
Algerian writer.
> His first HB/noir ³Morituri² was recently published
by Toby Press, in
> their Toby Crime imprint. ³Double Blank² will be
issued in March.
> These two short volumes are the two first novels of
a trilogy describing
> the struggle of ³commisaire Llob².
> The pseudo used by the writer evoked a feminine
name, but it¹s a man
> (former high rank officer in the Algerian army) who
wrote these noir
> novels, in French, about a police officer, Brahim
Llob, fighting with
> his limited means corruption and Integrism in a
decaying Algeria. It¹s
> moving, sometime brutal, very dark and full of irony
close to cynicism.
> In French, the language served admirably the
purpose: concise,
> structured and very efficient.
> ³Morituri², first published in 1997, is IMHO one of
the best noir novels
> written in French during the last ten
years.
> Strongly recommended.
>
> I did not read the English translations, but IMO it
could not lose very
> much in English (unless a very lousy
translatorŠ).
>
> In 2004, Khadra added a fourth part: ³La part du
mort² (=The Dead Man¹s
> Share).
>
> E.Borgers
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