BRUNO BOUDJELAL, ‘Disquiet Days’

Written By SUERAYA SHAHEEN

Disquiet Days / Jours Intranquilles

Bruno Boudjelal

Size: 22 x 16.5 cm

Pages: 232

Published by Autograph, 2009

Disquiet Days / Jours Intranquilles charts Bruno Boudjelal's 11-year inquiry into his origins, his identity and his unknown family, set against the background of an Algerian state in the process of turning its citizens against each other and abandoning them to their own resources.

His journey, at once personal and familial, but also topographic and political, is described with intimacy and sensitivity as he acts as an often unwilling witness to the violent events of everyday life. The universal relevance of this story of a search for what is true in one's own biography emerges out of a mist of lies and dissimulation, and is overlaid on recent Algerian events that are shrouded in falsehoods and ignorance.

The book contains an essay by Salima Ghezali, journalist, writer and former editor of the weekly La Nation, which was banned by the Algerian authorities in 1996.

SUERAYA SHAHEEN
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