Etiket: Houris
Houris by Kamel Daoud | To prevent history from repeating itself
In the epigraph to his new novel, HourisKamel Daoud recalls that it has been forbidden in Algeria since 2005, under penalty of imprisonment, to use “the wounds of the national…
In the novel “Houris”, Kamel Daoud tells the story of the civil war in Algeria
A few novels and a handful of films evoke it. But the bloody and unthinkable years of the “black decade” in Algeria are still covered today by a real leaden…