Yasmina Khadra, Author, John Cullen, Translator , trans. from the French by John Cullen. Doubleday/Talese $18.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-385-51748-5
Khadra, the pseudonym of Mohammed Moulessehoul, an exiled Algerian writer celebrated for his politically themed fiction (The Swallows of Kabul
), turns his attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this moving novel unlikely to satisfy...
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Yasmina Khadra, trans. from the Arabic by Donald Nicholson-Smith and Alyson Waters, afterword by Robert Polito. Univ. of Nebraska, $15.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3493-2
Like the alienated character of Camus’ The Stranger—which clearly influenced this first-person confessional by Mohammed Moulessehoul (The Sirens of Baghdad), writing under a pseudonym—the peculiar boy who inhabits the manor at a remote Algerian...
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Yasmina Khadra, Author, Aubrey Botsford, Translator , trans. from the French by Aubrey Botsford. Toby $12.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-59264-119-2
Former high-ranking Algerian army officer Khadra, who's now an exile in France and who first used a female pseudonym to avoid military censorship, presents a brutal and cynical look at his native country in his intriguing second Inspector Llob...
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Yasmina Khadra, Author, Aubrey Botsford, Translator , trans. from the French by Aubrey Botsford. Toby $12.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-59264-143-7
Khadra's third Inspector Llob mystery (after 2005's Double Blank
) searingly portrays present-day Algeria's brutal realities. Llob faces expulsion and death threats after writing—under the pen name Yasmina Khadra—a series of...
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Yasmina Khadra, Author, Aubrey Botsford, Translator , trans. from the French by Aubrey Botsford. Toby Crime $14.95 (341p) ISBN 978-1-59264-269-4
Khadra again proves to be Camus’s heir apparent in this searing prequel to his Algerian trilogy featuring Supt. Brahim Llob (Morituri
, etc.), set in modern Algiers with its dual personality (“one that used to inspire poets” vs....
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Yasmina Khadra, Author, John Cullen, Translator , trans. from the French by John Cullen. Doubleday/ Talese $19.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-385-52174-1
Khadra's latest political thriller set in the Middle East couldn't be more timely. The versatile Khadra brings the reader inside the mind of an unnamed terrorist-to-be, an Iraqi Bedouin, radicalized by witnessing the death of innocents and...
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Yasmina Khadra, Author, Linda Black, Translator Toby Press $14.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-59264-186-4
Nafa Walid is a handsome aspiring actor in 1990s Algiers when he stumbles on a position as a driver for the Rajas, a wealthy and influential family. Instead of providing the springboard for his career he'd hoped for, however, the job serves as a...
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Yasmina Khadra, Author, Nan A. Talese, Author , trans. from the French by John Cullen. Doubleday/ Talese $18.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-51001-1
Khadra is the nom de plume for Algerian army officer Mohamed Moulessehoul (In the Name of God
; Wolf Dreams
), who illustrates the effects of repression on a pair of Kabul couples in this slim, harrowing novel of life in Afghanistan under Taliban...
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Yasmina Khadra, trans. from the French by John Cullen. Doubleday/Talese, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-54591-4
Algerian writer Khadra (What the Day Owes the Night) chronicles a young man’s involvement in terrorism, beginning with an account of the November 2015 Paris attacks. Narrator Khalil, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, follows his childhood friend Driss...
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