Los virtuosos

Algeria, 1914. Yacín, a young man of twenty, has never left his neighborhood when he is asked to go to France to fight the Germans instead of the son of the caid, who has a heart condition. In return they promise fortune and comfort for him and his family. Four years later, the young man who returns from the trenches sees the world with different eyes, and a new fight begins for him. "The virtuous" is a major work, considered by French critics as Khadra's best novel. A story of losses, separations and reunions in a time and place portrayed with mastery and emotion.