The Year of the Eclipse
Publisher
:
Calmann-Levy
Parution date
:
2001
EAN
:
9782702131718
Description
Exiled in France, Hayba is a young Algerian widow struggling not to sink into depression. Once a successful gynecologist in Algeria, she finds a job as a psychoanalyst’s assistant and reunites with old friends also in exile. Despite her efforts to forget her painful past, good and bad memories resurface: the astounding beauty of her country, her life-long friend and husband with whom she had dreamed of building a better world and, much to her despair, the event that changed her life forever. Islamic fundamentalists and corruption had been controlling Algeria for years, but when the targets of those killers became the people closest to her it was already too late. She loses her husband and sees her young daughter killed in front of her. Broken and chilled by exile, she finds in the man who reaches out to her the faith necessary to live and give life to the baby she carries.
In today’s Algeria plagued by barbarous terrorists raising fear and eradicating any possible future for its young generation, L’Année de l’éclipse recounts the moving fate and incredible survival of this extraordinary woman.
Author
Ben Mansour : Latifa Ben Mansour is Algerian. She was forced to flee her country after Islamic terrorists took over her country. She is the author of several novels, including Le Chant du lys et du basilic (Lattès, 1990) and La Prière de la peur (La Différence, 1997) which was critically acclaimed and received glowing reviews from the press.
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