Book cover for Where I Left My Soul by Jérôme Ferrari

Where I Left My Soul

2014 Released
161 Pages
2-3 Hours
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MacLehose PressISBN 9781623655082

A tale of two torturersâ??Where I Left My Soul is a powerful exploration of guilt and identity in the savagery of the Algerian War. Captain Andre Degorce is reunited with Lieutenant Horace Andreani, with whom he experienced the horrors of combat and imprisonment in Vietnam. Captives now pass from the Captainâ??s hands into Andreani's: one-time victims have become torturers. Andreani has fully embraced his new status, but Degorce has lost all sense of himself, only finding peace when he is with Tahar, a commander in the National Liberation Army. Taharâ??s cell now acts as a confessional for Andreani, with the jailor opening up to his prisoner.

Jérôme Ferrari

Jérôme Ferrari is an author and translator who has taught philosophy in Algeria, Corsica, and Abu Dhabi. Born in Paris in 1968, he has written several novels and won the Prix Goncourt in 2012 for The Sermon on the Fall of Rome.

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