What the Day Owes the Night

About “What the Day Owes the Night”

After half a century, Jonas meets again the friends of his youth in this 2010 novel by Yasmina Khadra, looking back on his life and the turbulent history of his homeland, Algeria. Born under the Arabic name Younes on the dark side of fate, he grows up as Jonas in the European quarter of the coastal town of Rio Salado, where he meets the beautiful Frenchwoman Emilie, the great love of his life, and their longing mirrors across decades the dramatic relationship between Orient and Occident.