The Dictator's Last Night

by Yasmina Khadra (Author), Julian Evans (Translator)

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2015
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People say I am a megalomaniac. It is not true. I am an exceptional being, providence incarnate, envied by the gods, able to make a faith of his cause.
October 2011. In the dying days of the Libyan civil war, Muammar Gaddafi is hiding out in his home town of Sirte along with his closest advisors.
In this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history.
Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.

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People say I am a megalomaniac. It is not true. I am an exceptional being, providence incarnate, envied by the gods, able to make a faith of his cause.

October 2011. In the dying days of the Libyan civil war, Muammar Gaddafi is hiding out in his home town of Sirte along with his closest advisors.

In this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history.

Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 19 Oct 2015
ISBN 10: 1910477133
ISBN 13: 9781910477137
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Media Reviews

Intense, elegant, despairing prose...deeply affecting.' The Guardian

Beautifully written... disturbing and mesmerising
San Francisco Chronicle

Khadra is a passionately moral writer but he rarely sits in judgment. The Literary Review

Khadra's prose is gentle and precise The New Yorker

Author Bio

Yasmina Khadra: Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.
He became director of the Algerian Cultural Center in Paris in November 2007 and in November 2013 announced his candidacy for the presidency of Algeria.

Julian Evans: Julian Evans is a writer and translator. He lives in Bristol.