Poor Man's Son - Mouloud Feraoun

Like The Autobiographical Hero Of This, His Classic First Novel, Mouloud Feraoun Grew Up In The Rugged Kabyle Region Of French-controlled Algeria, Where The Prospects For Most Muslim Berber Men Were Limited To Shepherding Or Emigrating To France For Factory Work. While Feraoun Escaped Such A Fate By Excelling In The Colonial School System--as A Student And, Later, As A Teacher At The Cole Normale--he Remained Firmly Rooted In Kabyle Culture. This Dual Perspective Only Enhanced His View, Often Brutally, Of The Ravages On His Country By Poverty, Colonial Rule, And A World War That Descended On Algeria Like A Great Storm.this Embattled Society, And Feraoun's Unique Position Within It, Became The Raw Material For The Poor Man's Son.