LEADER 03486nam 2200553 450 001 9910797778103321 005 20230807193931.0 010 $a9956-762-56-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000499094 035 $a(EBL)4397443 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001583716 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16264539 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001583716 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14865705 035 $a(PQKB)11609542 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397443 035 $a(OCoLC)929790841 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse50836 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397443 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248457 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL846162 035 $a(OCoLC)957436805 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000499094 100 $a20160905h20152015 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA pebble in the river /$fNoufel Bouzeboudja 210 1$aBamenda, Cameroon :$cLangaa Research & Publishing CIG,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-762-17-2 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; Back cover 330 $aAkli is an old man now. He is in prison. It is from there that he begins telling his story of the colonisation of Northern Africa. Of his village especially, Thadarth. It is a narrative of revolution, war, torture, dispossession, corruption, intolerance, betrayal, terrorism, religious extremism but, above all, resistance. A narrative of inevitability and loss. The loss of faith in a higher power. The loss of those closest to him, which he would endlessly try, in vain, to prevent since his adolescence. He would forever carry the burden of their death and absence, the regret of not having been able to protect them, to be with them. This forged him into a cynic, a man without hope for a better future, a man who wishes for death every day that passes. But his is also a story of love. Unconditional. Pure love. The ineffable kind which he has for his country, his land, the mountains, his family, his friends, his people. A story of his life's first love, Martine, daughter to the French settler, Fino, who left him with a lot of frustrations but also good remembrances. If his story begins in gloom, it is one through which secretly, intimately and ultimately runs the thread of hope. Hope because he is released from prison at the time of the narration. Hope that his daughter, Zira, the fruit of the rape of his wife by terrorists, brings back into his life. It is a story about the persistence of beauty, of good and goodness, even in the face of chaos. It is a story about truth. His truth. Eternal even when obscured. No man can be broken badly enough to not feel love, to not see and enjoy beauty. No man can tear the world apart so much that love and beauty no longer exist. Once this truth is accepted, however chaotic or scary the outside world can be, peace can be found. Peace within one's own being. Peace which Akli finds too. 606 $aColonization$vFiction 607 $aAfrica, North$xColonization$vFiction 615 0$aColonization 676 $a843 700 $aBouzeboudja$b Noufel$01489792 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797778103321 996 $aA pebble in the river$93710650 997 $aUNINA