The African Equation (eBook)

Yasmina Khadra (Autor)

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2025
336 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-430-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Kurt Krausmann, a recently bereaved Frankfurt doctor, is persuaded to join his friend, wealthy benefactor Hans Makkenroth, on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. The journey helps him begin to confront his loss, but soon misfortune strikes again: the boat he and Hans are travelling in is hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and the men are taken hostage.Held in a remote hideout, the prisoners suffer harsh conditions and the brutality of their guards; self-styled warriors, ex-army captains and even poets drawn to banditry through poverty or opportunism.When the group decamps to a lawless desert region and Hans is taken away, Kurt sinks deeper into despair. But fellow inmate Bruno, a French ethnologist who has been travelling Africa for 40 years, attempts to show Kurt another side to the wounded yet defiant continent he has taken to his heart.

Autor

Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of award-winning Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. His novels include The Swallows of Kabul, The Attack, and The Sirens of Baghdad. In 2011 Yasmina Khadra was awarded the prestigious Grand prix de la littérature Henri Gal by the Académie Française.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Übersetzer: Howard Curtis
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Adventure novel • African setting • African travels • Bereavement • Bruno • brutal guards • captivity • comoros • cultural conflict • defiant continent • Despair • emotional journey • ex-army captains • Frankfurt doctor • French ethnologist • Friendship • Gulf of Aden • Hans Makkenroth • harsh conditions • hijacked boat • hostage • humanitarian mission • human resilience • international fiction • journey of self-discovery • Kurt Krausmann • lawless desert • Opportunism • Personal Loss • poets turned bandits • Poverty • psychological drama • remote hideout • Survival • warriors • Wealthy benefactor
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-430-1 / 1805334301
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-430-9 / 9781805334309