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Title	:	Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
Author	:	Yasmina Khadra
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 441 pages
Published	:	August 21st 2008 by Julliard (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Northern Africa. Algeria. Cultural. France. Historical. Historical Fiction. Africa

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Alors que Younes n’a que neuf ans, son père, paysan ruiné par un spéculateur autochtone, perd ses terres ancestrales. Accablé, l’homme doit se résoudre à confier son enfant à son frère, un pharmacien parfaitement intégré à la communauté pied-noir d’une petite ville de l’Oranais. Le sacrifice est immense. En abandonnant son fils, l’homme perd du même coup le respect de lui-même.

Mais les yeux bleus de Younes et son physique d’ange l’aident à se faire accepter par cette communauté aisée de province. Rebaptisé Jonas, il grandit parmi de jeunes colons dont il devient l’inséparable camarade. Il découvre avec eux les joies de l’existence et partage leurs rêves d’adolescents privilégiés que ni la Seconde Guerre Mondiale ni les convulsions d’un nationalisme arabe en pleine expansion ne perturbent. Jusqu’au jour où revient au village Émilie, une jeune fille splendide qui va devenir la vestale de nos jeunes gens. Naîtra ainsi une grande histoire d’amour qui mettra à rude épreuve la complicité fraternelle des quatre garçons, écartelés entre la loyauté, l’égoïsme et la rancune que la guerre d’Indépendance va aggraver.
La révolte algérienne sera, pour Younes-Jonas, sanglante et fratricide. Il refusera de laisser détruire l’amitié exceptionnelle qui l’unit à ces jeunes pieds-noirs ; il ne pourra tourner le dos à cet oncle et à cette tante qui lui ont offert une vie meilleure ; mais jamais il n’acceptera non plus de renoncer aux valeurs inculquées par son père : la fierté, la déférence envers ses ancêtres et les coutumes de son peuple, le respect absolu de la parole donnée, et, ce, quitte à mettre en péril l’amour déchirant qu’il a pour Émilie.

Avec la verve romanesque qu’on lui connaît, Yasmina Khadra éclaire d’un nouveau jour ce conflit ayant opposé deux peuples amoureux d’un même pays. La grande originalité de cette saga qui se déroule de 1930 à nos jours repose sur une courageuse défense de cette double culture franco-algérienne que l’Histoire a, de part et d’autre, trop souvent cherché à renier.

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Original Title:	Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
ISBN:	2260017584 (ISBN13: 9782260017585)
Edition Language:	French URL http://www.laffont.fr/Julliard/livre.asp?code=978-2-260-01758-5
Characters:	Germaine, Younes Mahieddine, Jean-Christophe Lamy, Emilie Cazenave, Mahi, Fabrice Scamaroni, Simon Benyamin, André Jiménez Sosa
Setting:	Oran(Algeria)

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Through the window, which is open on to the deep blue sky where the moon glitters like a medal, I prepare myself to watch, in slow motion, the parade of my misdeeds, my joys, the familiar faces. I hear them arrive, a thunderous roar like a rockslide. How should I sort them? How should I behave? I am going round in circles on the edge of an abyss, an acrobat on a razors edge, a mesmerised volcanologist on the edge of a bubbling crater; I am at the gates of memory, the endless reels of film we all

very interesting historical viewpoint about Algeria's independence through the eyes of an Arab. Built in with love story to keep the history going. I enjoyed both especially the descriptions of the poor.

I loved this book. Such a great read. You can feel the emotions of the subject throughout. I could not put it down until the last paragraph.

When this ring arrived I was foolishly surprised to realize it had been translated from French. If I'd known, I would have read it in French, but then again, if I hadn't signed up for the ring, I probably wouldn't have thought of reading this one at all. Even though it's a translation, I found much of the prose very beautiful, and I savored the text. This being said, the story is quite relentlessly sad - actually quite hopeless, really. The sudden barely credible shift in the last seven pages

On the surface, this is an agonizingly thin story of love and renunciation. The events of the brutal war of liberation and the looming tragedy of the Algerian civil war color the novel, but are not the secret of its compelling inner life. This is a novel of lost love told without nostalgia. It is permeated by the spirit of forgiveness.Younes/Jonas is a boy without a home, and later a young man without a clear place in the world around him. He stands with a foot in each camp that divides colonial

What the Day Owes the NightThis novel starts on the right track. The first part is so promising and strongly captures the readers attention. You feel strongly attached to Younes as you drift through his world. The slums, the poor, and the hard working proud father who is trying so hard to provide for his family, and when he fails, he looses his dignity, and runs away from humiliation. We get to know the Algeria we never new, Algeria before, during and after the revolution that lead to its

Wow! I had this book recommended to me by Nikos79 and this was a powerfully great read. Yasmina Khadra, author of the hit "The Swallows of Kabul" has a remarkable way with words (translated from French). Khadra, whose name is Mohammed Moulessehoul, is an Algerian soldier who now lives in France. He knows his land, his people and the Algerian history. Add in the romance and you have the making of a great story.Set in Oran and nearby Rio Salado during the 1930's to the 1960's, I felt the ghost of