Els nostres germans ferits

We are in Algiers, in 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young revolutionary, plants a bomb in some workshops on the outskirts of the city. He has chosen a secluded place so that there are no victims: it is about shaking the spirits, not the bodies. However, he is arrested before the device explodes. No one was killed or injured and they accuse him of attempted sabotage. Despite everything, he is sentenced to death by a government that cannot tolerate a pied-noir getting along with the oppressed. Iveton will go down in history as the only European guillotined in the Algerian war. Lyrical and fast-paced, the novel recounts Iveton's interrogation, arrest and trial, while evoking his childhood in Algeria and the happy days of everyday life. Because before being the hero or the terrorist that public opinion saw in him, Iveton was an idealist who loved his country, his wife, his friends, life... And the freedom he hoped for all human brothers When justice has been unworthy, literature can seek reparation. Joseph Andras, with a vivid and relentless style, pays tribute to him while questioning the obscure points of the Algerian conflict in the French narrative.