Imagining of Literature

If you search Google for Yasmina Khadra, Wikipedia will inform you that the name is a pseudonym of the writer Mohammed Moulessehoul. He used the enchanting female name (which translated from Arabic means “green jasmine”) to avoid the military censorship. Speaking of his book, the author explains that its main purpose was to show one undisguised version of the East to the West. The book shows both the differences and the similarities without jumping to conclusions. The book’s goal is indeed to reveal that people are the same everywhere – good or evil, capable of love and respect or bound to hatred and out-of-date traditions. Of course, there are problems between East and West, the separation in words issue itself. Problems widely discussed, passionately argued about and profoundly researched. Everything seems to have been said. It was just the previous year when Sarkozy politically involved in the case of an afghan woman that was under sentence of death by public lynch. It is too easy...