Every day, Stéphane Place offers you a literature break, in partnership with the Librairie Mollat de Bordeaux. Tuesday, return on a dark period which crossed Algeria between the end of the Eighties and the beginning of the Nineties, with the novel of Frédéric Paulin, "The war is a ruse".
First opus of a fascinating trilogy signed Frédéric Paulin, "War is a ruse" evokes the torments of Algeria at the end of the 20th century. As the country opens up to democracy, Algerian generals are taking advantage of the electoral success of the Islamic Front of Pure Salvation quickly ending this parenthesis. Proclamation of the state of emergency, arrests, tortures, attacks ... the country plunges into a spiral of violence. The civil war will ravage the country for almost a decade. A historical and geopolitical framework chosen by the author to install the intrigue of this thriller that adored Monica Irimia, bookseller at Mollat.
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