Eric Fottorino pays tribute to Algerian culture in a beautiful novel in search of roots and father

The journalist and novelist, Prix Femina in 2007 for "Baisers de cinéma", staged a captivating trio between Paris and AlgiersIn the early 1990s in Paris, Jean Foscolani was preparing to publish his first novel, Sensitive People. His press attaché, Clara, defended his work with passion. She introduced the young man to Said, his lover. This famous Algerian writer lives, hunted, in fear: the Islamists, who murdered one of his sons, also swore his l…