Khadra Yasmina - The Angels Die - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Award winning author Yasmina Khadra gives us a stunning panorama of life in Algeria between the two world wars. A writer who can understand man wherever he is The New York Times Even as a child living hand - to - mouth in a ghetto Turambo dreamt of a better future. So when his family find a decent home in the city of Oran anything seems possible. But colonial Algeria is no place to be ambitious for those of Arab - Berber ethnicity. Through a succession of menial jobs the constants for Turambo are his rage at the injustice surrounding him and a reliable left hook. This last opens the door to a boxing apprenticeship which will ultimately offer Turambo a choice: to take his chance at sporting greatness or choose a simpler life beside the woman he loves.
Title: The Angels Die
Author(s): Khadra Yasmina
Publisher: Gallic Books
Barcode: 9781908313911
Pages: 272 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/2/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction