Title : My father, this harki - Dalila Kerchouche - book

Summary :

As a child, I adored my father. As a teenager, I hated him. Because he was a harki, because he supported the French army during the Algerian War, I long believed that my father was a traitor. He never denied it. He never told me anything. Faced with his silence, I decided to follow in the footsteps of a fellah and a shepherdess, my parents, whose lives were turned upside down one morning in June 1962.

Forty years later, I retraced their journey through the camps where France herded them: their past and my present were woven, knotted, and intimately intertwined. These pages are their story and my quest. In this journey to the end of shame, I discovered a horrible machinery of social exclusion and human disintegration.

And then I crossed the Mediterranean. In Algeria, I continued my quest, in a region at war with Islamism, I found members of my family and my parents' village, which they never saw again. There, I understood who the Harkis really were, their role in the Algerian War, their conflicts, and their secrets too. I finally broke through the silence that weighs on this story. I knew, then, why I had written this book: to speak to my father.

• EAN : 9782020563390
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