Where I left my soul - Jrme Ferrari

It is 1957, the savage Algerian War rages on. Captain Andr Degorce is reunited with Lieutenant Horace Andreani, with whom he experienced the horrors of combat and imprisonment in Vietnam. Captives now pass from Degorce's hands into Andreani's: one-time victims have become torturers.

Andreani has fully embraced his new status, but Degorce has lost all sense of himself. He only finds peace when he is with Tahar, a commander in the National Liberation Army who is held in a cell that now acts as a confessional, the jailor opening up to his prisoner.

Jerme Ferrariwas born in Paris in 1968. After teaching in Algeria and then Corsica, he is now based in Abu Dhabi, where he teaches philosophy. He is the author of four previous published by Actes Sud: Dans le secret(2007), Balco Atlantico(2008), Un dieu un animal(2009) and O j'ai laiss mon me(2010) (Where I Left My Soul), winner of the Prix du roman France Televisions, the Prix Initiales, the Prix Larbaud, and the Grand Prix Poncetton de la SGDL. La sermon sur la chute de Rome(The Sermon on the Fall of Rome) was the winner of the 2012 Prix Goncourt.

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