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Where I Left My Soul
Translated by: Mohammed Saleh Al-Ghamdi
A powerful historical and philosophical novel by Jérôme Ferrari set during the Algerian War, exploring the moral decay of two French officers as they grapple with torture, duty, and lost humanity.
About this book
In Where I Left My Soul (حيث تركت روحي), Prix Goncourt-winning author Jérôme Ferrari delivers a haunting, intense meditation on power, guilt, and moral collapse during the Algerian War of Independence. The story centers on two French military officers in Algiers, 1957: Captain Andreani and Lieutenant Horace Andreani, a former WWII Resistance fighter and prisoner of war in Indochina. Tasked with interrogating and torturing Algerian freedom fighters, the men undergo a profound psychological transformation. Ferrari dissects the devastating irony of how victims of past horrors can become the perpetrators of new atrocities. Through elegant, uncompromising prose, the novel explores how war erodes the human soul until nothing remains but shame and oblivion.
Why read it?
Because it is a masterfully written, thought-provoking tragedy that fearlessly examines the psychological price of torture and imperial violence.
Who is it for?
For readers of historical and philosophical fiction, modern French literature, and anyone interested in the psychological and ethical impacts of war and colonialism.
Book details
Language
ar
ISBN-13
9789938833676
Page count
159