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    What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of What the Day Owes the Night with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra, which chronicles the life of an Algerian boy torn between two worlds: his roots as an Arab, and the pied-noir community he has been adopted into. His quest to discover his own identity and a place where he truly belongs spans decades, during which he forms lasting friendships, witnesses the outbreak of the Algerian War, and crosses paths time and time again with Émilie, a beguiling young woman who might just be the love of his life. Yasmina Khadra is the pen-name of Mohammed Moulessehoul, an award-winning Algerian author.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateSep 22, 2017
    ISBN9782806296405
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      What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      Algerian soldier and writer

      Born in the Algerian Sahara in 1955.

      Notable works:

      The Swallows of Kabul (2002), novel

      The Attack (2005), novel

      The Sirens of Baghdad (2006), novel

      Yasmina Khadra is the pseudonym of Mohammed Moulessehoul. His father was a nurse and his mother was a nomad, and he was born in the Algerian Sahara in 1955. He served as an officer in the Algerian army for 36 years, and published six novels under his real name before adopting various pen-names in order to evade military censorship. He specifically chose the name Yasmina Khadra in homage to his wife, as those are her two forenames. The choice of a female pseudonym was also a way for him to take a stance in the debate over emancipation for Muslim women.

      He writes in French, but his works have been translated into many other languages, and several of them have been adapted for the screen.

      The love of a lifetime in colonial Algeria

      Genre: novel

      Reference edition: Khadra, Y. (2011) What the Day Owes the Night. Trans. Wynne, F. London: Vintage.

      1st edition: 2008

      Themes: love, friendship, war, identity crisis

      What the Day Owes the Night was first published in French in 2008. It chronicles the life of Younes, a young Algerian boy, whose father loses his fields to arson. He is then adopted by his uncle, a chemist, who introduces him

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