This book charts Bruno Boudjelal’s 11-year inquiry into his origins, his identity and his unknown family, set against the background of an Algerian state in the process of turning its citizens against each other and abandoning them to their own resources.

His journey, at once personal and familial, but also topographic and political, is described with intimacy and sensitivity as he acts as an often unwilling witness to the violent events of everyday life.

The universal relevance of this story of a search for what is true in one’s own biography emerges out of a mist of lies and dissimulation, and is overlaid on recent Algerian events that are shrouded in falsehoods and ignorance.

Features an essay Algeria, Act II by Salima Ghezali.

This book is available with two alternative covers – blue or red.

Published by Autograph 2009

Edited by: Tom O Mara

Pages: 232

Images: 153

Dimensions: 16.5 x 22cm

Softcover

Text in English and French

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