Where I Left My Soul (Paperback)

Jerome Ferrari

ISBN 10: 0857389092 / ISBN 13: 9780857389091

Published by Quercus Publishing, London, 2013

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Paperback. He was interned at Buchenwald during the German occupation and imprisoned by the Vietnamese when France's armies in the Far East collapsed. Now Capitaine Degorce is an interrogator himself, and the only peace he can find is in the presence of Tahar, a captive commander in the very organization he is charged with eliminating. But his confessor is no saint: Tahar stands accused of indiscriminate murder. Lieutenant Andreani - who served with Degorce in Vietnam and revels in his new role as executioner - is determined to see a noose around his neck. This is Algeria, 1957. Blood, sand, dust, heat - perhaps the bitterest colonial conflict of the last century. Degorce will learn that in times of war, no matter what a man has suffered in his past, there is no limit to the cruelty he is capable of. A devastating novel of the Algerian War, brutally relevant to current conflicts - by the winner of the 2012 Prix Goncourt. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where I Left My Soul (Paperback)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857389092
• ISBN 13: 9780857389091
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

1957. A Alger, le capitaine André Degorce retrouve le lieutenant Horace Andreani, avec lequel il a affronté l’horreur des combats puis de la détention en Indochine. Désormais les prisonniers passent des mains de Degorce à celles d’Andreani, d’un tortionnaire à l’autre : les victimes sont devenues bourreaux. Si Andreani assume pleinement ce nouveau statut, Degorce, dépossédé de lui-même, ne trouve l’apaisement qu’auprès de Tahar, commandant de l’ALN, retenu dans une cellule qui prend des allures de confessionnal où le geôlier se livre à son prisonnier…

Sur une scène désolée, fouettée par le vent, le sable et le sang, dans l’humidité des caves algéroises où des bourreaux se rassemblent autour des corps nus, Jérôme Ferrari, à travers trois personnages réunis par les injonctions de l’Histoire dans une douleur qui n’a, pour aucun d’eux, ni le même visage ni le même langage, trace, par-delà le bien et le mal, un incandescent chemin d’écriture vers l’impossible vérité de l’homme dès lors que l’enfer s’invite sur terre.

About the Author

Jer me Ferrari was born in Paris in 1968. His first novel in English translation, Where I Left My Soul was the winner of the Prix du roman France Televisions, the Prix Initiales, the Prix Larbaud, and the Grand Prix Poncetton de la SGDL in its French edition. His second, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, was the winner of the 2012 Prix Goncourt, confirming his status as one of France's outstanding young literary talents.