THE ATTACK AT THE READING CLUB

The attempt It is the title of the book that will be discussed at the next meeting of the Reading Club of Santa Eulària Des Riu. A novel more enlightening than any essay. his actor, Mohamed Moulessehoul, former commander of the Algerian army, began his literary career with a female pseudonym, Yasmina Khadra, embodying the suffering of a generation displaced by extremism.

Khadra novels are characterized by a fluid style and a deep understanding of human psychology. Praised by Coetzee, Yasmina Khadra is a stimulating and insightful narrator, that has used fiction to explore the tensions that afflict the Maghreb and the Middle East. His perspective reveals the social and intellectual plurality of some regions that, From Europe and the United States, They have been reduced to a false polarity between fundamentalism and institutional repression. For the author, Peace will not be imposed until respect for life replaces the culture of martyrdom and national security doctrine, Simple costume of state terrorism.

Khadra narra, brilliantly a story that pushes the reader page after page, exciting your desire to understand and know. Tel Aviv, rush hour. A suicidal attack causes a massacre in a restaurant crowded with people. Dr. Amín Jaafari, Israeli of Palestinian origin, He serves the survivors in the hospital when he receives the news that, Among the dead, His wife is, And that everything indicates that it is the cause of the attack. In search of an explanation to what happened and suddenly converted into a traitor for many with whom he shared the world apparently safe in which he lived, The protagonist will try to penetrate the complex network of Islamic terrorism.

Reading Club Santa Eulalia

The attempt

From Yasmina Khadra

Tuesday, 1 of September

20:30 h

C / Sant Jaume, 72

(in front of the Spain Theater)

Santa Eulalia

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