Yasmina Khadra Knihy

A timely and disturbing graphic novel from Yasmina Khada's acclaimed fictional account of a terrorist suicide attack that illuminates the human cost of terrorism and deceit.

Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Yet, the lives of these four people are about to become inexplicably intertwined, through death and imprisonment to passion and extraordinary self-sacrifice.

As a young man Younes' life is irrevocably changed when he leaves his broken home for the vibrant, colourful and affluent European district of Rio Salado. Renamed Jonas, he begins a new life and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake.

Khadra portrays the reality of terrorism and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and humane, devoid of political bias, hatred, and polemics, it probes deep inside the Muslim world and gives readers a profound understanding of what seems impossible to understand.

"A writer who can understand man wherever he is."--The New York Times "Khadra's prose is gentle and precise."--The New Yorker As a child living in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. When his family find a home in the city anything seems possible. Through a succession of menial jobs, the constants for Turambo are rage at the injustice surrounding him, and a reliable left hook. A boxing apprenticeship offers Turambo a choice. Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. He is the author of more than twenty novels, including The Swallows of Kabul.

Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man returns home to his small desert village, where he witnesses three unspeakable acts of violence committed by American soldiers. Before long, he finds himself part of a terrorist operation which will take him to London.

"Kurt Krausmann's settled existence as a Frankfurt doctor is torn apart when his wife commits suicide. Unable to make sense of what happened, he agrees to join his friend Hans on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. But as they sail through the Gulf of Aden their boat is boarded by pirates. The two men are taken hostage and imprisoned in a cave on the East African coast. Their ordeal is just beginning: the hostile kidnappers and environment will test their endurance to the limit. Through all of the this, even as he focuses on survival and escape, what can Kurt learn about his captors, the land he's been brought to and, more importantly, himself?"--Front book flap.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘People say I am a megalomaniac. It is not true. I am an exceptional being, providence incarnate, envied by the gods, able to make a faith of his cause.’October 2011. In the dying days of the Libyan civil war, Muammar Gaddafi is hiding out in his home town of Sirte along with his closest advisors. They await a convoy that will take them south, away from encroaching rebel forces and NATO aerial attacks. The mood is sombre. In what will be his final night, Gaddafi reflects on an extraordinary life, whilst still raging against the West, his fellow Arab nations and the ingratitude of the Libyan people.In this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Yasmina Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history.

Als hoher Offizier der algerischen Armee veröffentlichte Mohammed Moulessehoul seine ersten Romane wegen der strengen Zensurbestimmungen unter weiblichem Pseudonym: Hommage an die Courage der algerischen Frauen in finsterer Zeit. Erst nachdem er im Jahr 2000 mit seiner Familie nach Frankreich geht, kann er das Geheimnis um seine Identität lüften. Yasmina Khadra zählt heute zu den wichtigsten literarischen Stimmen der arabischen Welt und ist einer der erfolgreichsten Autoren Europas. `Der Schreiber von Koléa´ ist sein persönlichstes Buch, sein bestes, sagen viele. In ausdrucksstarker, bildhafter Prosa, mit Tempo und analytischer Schärfe schlägt er sich mit seiner Feder einen Weg durch den algerischen Dschungel und erzählt von einer Jugend in Nordafrika. Der junge Mohammed will Schriftsteller werden. Sein Vater zwingt ihn zu einer Karriere beim Militär. Mohammed flüchtet in die Welt der Literatur. Heimlich beginnt er zu schreiben. Eine folgenschwere Entscheidung, denn die Bürgerkriegsarmee duldet keine Schriftsteller! – Diese leidenschaftliche Stimme geht zu Herzen.

La 4ème de couverture indique : Dans un pays saigné à blanc par la guerre civile, lorsque l'Algérie se décomposait sous les coups de ses propres enfants, Yasmina Khadra a voulu témoigner à chaud de cette tragédie. Il l'a fait par le roman, au risque de son existence, en donnant chair et vie au personnage du commissaire Llob, homme intègre au milieu du chaos et qui tient droit lorsque tout vacille. Réunir en un seul volume quatre des enquêtes de ce flic hors des normes permet une évocation forte, pleine d'amour et de violence, de ce qu'a été, en Algérie, la terrifiante décennie des années 1990.