ALLAH AU PAYS DES ENFANTS PERDUS

A novel of the involuntary idle and the boredom, Allah In The Country Of Lost Children depicts with a raw realism a futureless youth that suffocates and that has no other perspective than obscurantism or exile.

Half a century after a failed independence, three young frustrated Algerians, but full of projects and humor, talk
without any taboo in a barn or by a cemetery: Ahawi, a Kabyle music rising star, his friend Zar, an engineer,
and Zof, a shepherd. The two first ones are disappointed by a country, Algeria, that kills creativity and hope:
after they fought vainly against power and Islamism, they get in touch with the Corporal, a perfidious and
confusing smuggler; while Zof, as an uncompromising patriot, refuses to follow them. Captives of a cynical
and corrupt system, the engineer and the singer will have to fight desperately.

Karim Akouche, born in 1978 in Kabylia (Algeria), is a poet, novelist and playwright. Living in Montreal since 2008, he also is a columnist for many papers (Marianne, Causeur...). With The Religion of My Mother (previously published in Algeria and Quebec), he experienced censorship in Algeria: the authorities forbade his conferences and he had to flee the country. He often participates in literary encounters in United States, Canada, France, Belgium, Middle East, Haiti, Spain, Germany... He is also the author of Letter To A Jihadist, that was played at Festival d'Avignon.