Cousin K

Cousin K
Author: Yasmina Khadra
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0803234937

""Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well." So relates the unnamed narrator of Cousin K as he launches into the sad tale of his childhood. With his father brutally killed as a traitor during Algeria's war of independence and his older brother an army officer far away, the young boy lives reclusively with his mother, an unfeeling woman who ignores him entirely. At fourteen he directs his thirst for affection toward his nine-year-old cousin, K, who has come to stay with his family for the summer. But so far from reciprocating his passionate regard for her, the little girl steals the affections of his mother and mocks and humiliates him resulting in his love becoming hopelessly entangled with hatred. Now, fate places a young woman in the narrator's path when he rescues her after a violent attack. From her he once more begs for the love that his mother and K always refused him, and her rejection revives the same hatred and illuminates the permanent emotional scars left on him from a lifetime of emotional neglect and derision, resulting in dire consequences."--

Memoirs

Memoirs
Author: Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.). Eugenics Record Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1912
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ISBN:

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The Nam Family
Author: Arthur Howard Estabrook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1912
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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Memoir
Author: Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.). Eugenics Record Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1912
Genre:
ISBN: