The Powder Monkey of Algiers

January 1957, Algiers.Caught up in a colonial battle marked by treachery, discrimination and torture, 15 year-old Simeon Abu struggles to find out where his father’s true loyalties lie.Subjected to the controlling influence of a brutal French army captain, Simeon’s own actual and psychological journey is echoed through the labyrinthine twists and turns of the Casbah and La Zone autonome d’Alger. His search leads to a series of revelations that will blow his family’s world wide open and set Simeon on his own path to independence.

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Dec 17, 2022
€4.32

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