課ﾏ[A] masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust課� from the Nobel Prize課ﾒnominated author (Publishers Weekly).Banned in the author課ｪs native Algeria, this groundbreaking novel is based on a true story and inspired by the work of Primo Levi.The Schiller brothers, Rachel and Malrich, couldn課ｪt be more dissimilar. They were born in a small village in Algeria to a German father and an Algerian mother and raised by an elderly uncle in one of the toughest ghettos in France. But the similarities end there. Rachel is a model immigrant課･hard working, upstanding, law-abiding. Malrich has drifted. Increasingly alienated and angry, a bleak future seems inevitable for him. But when Islamic fundamentalists murder the young men課ｪs parents in Algeria the destinies of both brothers are transformed. Rachel discovers the shocking truth about his family and buckles under the weight of the sins of his father, a former SS officer. Now Malrich, the outcast, will have to face that same awful truth alone.課ﾏThe German Mujahid deals with the fine line between the destructive power wielded by Islamic fundamentalism today and the power of another movement that left an indelible mark on history: Nazism.課揄ﾛ･Haaretz (Israel)課ﾏWith extraordinary eloquence, Sansal condemns both the [Algerian] military and the Islamic fundamentalists; he decries that Algeria crippled by trafficking, religion, bureaucracy, the culture of illegality, of coups, and of clans, career apologists, the glorification of tyrants, the love of flashy materialism, and the passion for rants.課揄ﾛ･Lire (France)課ﾏThe German Mujahid, winner of the RTL-Lire Prize for fiction, is a marvelous, devilishly well-constructed novel.課揄ﾛ･L課ｪExpress (France)
Dimensions: 140 x 210
Author: Boualem Sansal
ISBN: 9781933372921
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240