Comme un accordéon

Jacques Beauchard

Mon malheur arabe

Publication date : February 2010

Category : Comme un accordéon

ISBN13 : 9782841724987

Number of pages : 112

+	THE AUTHOR

Arab Fate

Mon Malheur arabe(Arab Fate) is a true story, but the characters' names have been changed as theyare still living.

"The guy dropped his machine gun. Hehadn't fired. Yet he had seen me first. He should have shot me down. He had letme live, making Arab fate mine. From that time on, my life and that of myfamily and my country was forever linked to that fate. Do you understand?"

Atan age when life is exhilarating and where death doesn't exist, the maincharacter of the book was spared by an FLN fighter. A similar situationexperienced thirty years later by one of his friends during the war in theLebanon brought this until then forgotten scene back to him and made himrealise that on that day his life had changed dramatically.
A life story packed withcountries crushed by war (Algeria, the Lebanon, Chad and Palestine), JacquesBeauchard's book flies straight to the point: he makes Arab fate our own andtakes us to the endless tragedy of a humanity that is in no way growing instature.