Hello,
London Review of Books has an article on the Algerian author
of "The Swallows of Kabul" that may be of interest:
"Khadra's best work - an enormously popular trilogy of
detective novels starring Inspector Brahim Llob, the first of
which, Morituri, has just been translated into English - is
lovingly devoted to the theory that, in Algeria, things are
never what they seem. The Llob series does not recall Camus,
except in its one-sided vision of the violence that has
plagued their country. Lean, acerbic and sometimes
pornographically violent, the writing here is far more
reminiscent of Simenon - or, better yet, of Chandler and
James M. Cain, the American noir novelists Camus so admired.
Set in Algeria at the height of the civil war, at a time when
reporters were often banned from entering the country, the
Llob novels illuminate the darkest, most treacherous corners
of Algeria's underworld."
-Stephen Burridge
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