Els nostres germans ferits

We're in Algiers in 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young revolutionary, puts a bomb in a workshop outside the city. He has chosen a separate place so that there are no victims: it is about shooking the spirits, not the bodies. However, he is arrested before the artifact explodes. No one has died or injured and is accused of sabotage attempts. However, he is sentenced to capital punishment by a government that cannot tolerate a pied-noir tying itself with the oppressed. Iveton will go down in history as the only guillotined European in the Algerian War.
A lyrical and fast-paced novel, the novel recounts Iveton's interrogation, arrest and trial, while evoking his childhood in Algeria and the happy days of everyday life. Because before he was the hero or terrorist that public opinion saw in him, Iveton was an idealist who loved his land, his wife, friends, life... And the freedom I was expecting for all the human brothers.
When justice has been outraged, literature can seek reparation. Joseph Andras, in a vivid and implacable style, pays tribute to him while questioning the dark spots of the Algerian conflict in French narrative. An ardent novel of admiration, tense for the need for justice and scathing as a sentence.

Joseph Andras

Born in 1984, Joseph Andras lives in Normandy, sheltered from the media and literary focus. Our wounded brothers, their first novel, caused a literary and political upset when it was published in France in 2016, and won the Goncourt Prize for the First Novel, which the author rejected. In 2021 she was taken to the cinema. Andras is also the author of the Kanaky Chronicle. The traces of Alphonse Dianou (2018) and, recently, the stories Ainsi nous leur faisons la guerre and Au loin le ciel du Sud (2021) (Catalan translation, 2022).