The book opens among the tombs and it is in the cemetery that the story ends. However, a fabulous vital energy diffuses from the first to the last page. Tension, like the resolution of opposites, proves to be the driving force of the novelist, playwright and poet Mohamed Kacimi, born in Algeria in 1955, established in France since 1982. So much so that the chronicle of his youth, conducted with a beating pen, is worth for its pieces of stylistic or emotional bravery, but above all for the impression as reassuring as it is exhilarating that it offers: the author embodies a vision of the Enlightenment that emerged in the land of Islam.
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