Yasmina Khadra

What the Day Owes the Night

Coming-of-age story spanning Algeria's colonial and postcolonial eras

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Yasmina Khadra
Yasmina Khadra

Algerian novelist writing under a female pen name whose crime novels and war fiction provide an insider Arab perspective on terrorism, colonialism, and moral crisis. The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack are his most internationally known works.

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