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Media review:

With his main character Aymane, the first-person narrator, Amin Zaoui shows the aberrations and confusion of a young person at this time.[…] How casual about criticism of Algerian society, its double standards, hypocrisy and violence. Sexuality plays an important role here, and the novel begins with an orgasm. Drug use, organ trafficking, prostitution, amputation, shootings [...] - many things are addressed. But cultural heritage and contemporary artists also feature. Most of all, it's about storytelling. (...) more

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Seventeen-year-old Ailane is sent by his mother to buy half a sugar loaf from the village's only grocer. This was to be for the tea that was to be offered to the visitor. But Ailane won't buy Sugar Loaf. For he will not return home for ten years. A thriller? Not at all, but a successful confusion between reality and fiction. (...) more