دمية النار

A novelist first met Reda Chaouch in 1985, as explosions and strange assassinations of intellectuals were beginning in Algeria. Ten years after Chaouch disappeared, when the war has ended or paused, the post brings the novelist a manuscript and a short note: Chaouch's own account of his life, which the novelist may sign as his own. He lets Chaouch tell it in his own voice. His father was director of a prison in the 1970s and took his own life at the end of the 1980s, and the son tried hard not to become like him. But circumstances set him on the same road, into a group living in the shadows whose strange orders he carried out until he became one of its key men. His story asks how a person turns into someone else.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

165 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Algeria

First published

2010 by Arab Scientific Publishers and Manshurat al-Ikhtilaf

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9786140100480 (original)

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