Title : Rachel-Rose and the Arab Officer - Paula Jacques - book

Summary :

The moment the Suez War ended, it was no longer the war but the peace that became terrible. Immediately after the expulsion of French and English nationals, the Jews found themselves, in turn, suspected of imperialism, Zionism, communism, or all three at once. The result, in all cases: arrest, imprisonment, theft of property, and, as a last resort, banishment. For his part, Salomon Cohen still cherished the hope of escape. He had Egyptian nationality. He had never subscribed to any political ideology, that good joke (...). He even considered it a sin to believe that an earthly power was capable of thwarting the designs of divine Providence. Cairo, 1957. Salomon, a prosperous bourgeois, refused to respond to a summons from the Mukhabarat, the Egyptian intelligence service. One night, a police officer shows up at the Cohens' house with a warrant; in reality, he has a personal score to settle with this family where, once, her mother served as a domestic. Rachel-Rose, the eldest daughter, opens the door. She is in her nightie, as if naked under the gaze of the Arab officer. Aware of the trouble he has caused the young girl, the officer Fouad Barkouk will play on her ardent naiveté to punish her mother's former employers. By seducing the teenager, by making her fall under his sexual and emotional dependence, Fouad believes he has satisfied his revenge... With this story of a first love in the arms of the enemy - a metaphor for the eternal war of possession -, Paula Jacques catches us where we least expect it: it is a true psychological thriller that she offers us, with the Egypt of the cosmopolitan years as a backdrop, this original land that marks all her work.

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