Publisher's Synopsis
Abdenour Si Hadj Mohand was born February 17, 1950 in Iferhounene in Upper Kabylie. Coming from a family of eight children, he lived his infancy in the climate of terror instituted by the French army who tried, in the aftermath of the outbreak of the war of liberation, to face the attacks of "fellagas" and exert fierce repression against the people who supported them. The Si Hadj Mohand family will not be spared. In December 1958, the elder brother of Abdenour falls on the field of honor at Ait-Mahmoud village; in July 1959, during the infamous Operation "Binoculars", the father, accused of being part of the OPA installed by Colonel Amirouche, was shot after being subjected to torture for a whole day. Journalist and writer, Abdenour Si Hadj Mohand wanted to testify to the horror that has traumatized hundreds of thousands of children in Algeria, but also the superhuman courage and inhuman suffering that have been the price to pay to snatch freedom. He is the author of several books: - The War experienced by an alpine hunter (Publibook 2008). - The Franco-Algerian War in Kabyle folk poetry (Publibook 2007). -Fellaga sons (autobiographical book - Publibook 2007). -Memoirs of a Child of War (Harmattan). - Colonel Amirouche's troops, alpine hunters and harkis-Casbah-edition. -Zahra, the legend of Djurdjura: Kabylie (1956-1968): War-Love-Betrayal (to Amazon editions). - Kabylie (1954-1962): These images that tell us the war. The 6th Alpine Chasseurs Battalion -Ahmed Ouyahia: the meeting of man with his destiny All these things I did not say This book follows the precedents which are the memories of the author and are also testimonies on events or characters who have marked him throughout his life. It often happens in life that an individual feels a very strong need to express himself, to say certain things, to reply, to act even at a specific moment, but that he has been prevented from doing so for a reason or for a reason. other. The repressed expression becomes a kind of cumbersome burden that the human being traps all the rest of his life, without being able, in spite of time, to get rid of it, even if this expression comes from the depths of the soul. on a declaration of love to a friend of childhood, or simply a request for affection, understanding when the need is very strong, vital, is felt, as it can be often question also events, unfortunately not always happy that life reserves us, hurtful words or facts that attack the mind to remain forever etched in memory and then determine the course of life. It is these facts, gestures and words which the author proposes to relate in this work and which have remained secret until the. Nour, the character of the story is this village child become adult city dweller. Material and paranormal life have no boundaries. the brain of the human being undergoes the traumas of everyday life and the nightmares and supernatural visions of the dream or the paranormal.This testimony tells of scenes actually lived, but also those suffered by beings possessed by supernatural spirits but present around us. In this book, it is the man of science, Cartesian, the imam or the ecclesiastic and the common man who are challenged by the conscious and the unconscious, the material and the spiritual, the normal and the paranormal
