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The Roots of Pride: A novel inspired by a true story
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the Kabyle village of Ighil Ali, two brothers grow up between the olive groves, the Thursday market, and the stories told by their grandmother beside the fire. Their days follow the slow rhythm of the mountains-until the French military trucks arrive one morning and tear their world apart.
Torn from their village and sent to the mud of the First World War, Omar and Mohand discover a France that demands their sacrifice without recognizing their dignity. In the frozen trenches of the North, under shellfire and shouted orders in a foreign language, Omar fights not only to survive but to protect his younger brother. One day on no-man's-land, that fragile hope is shattered forever.
When Omar returns alone to Ighil Ali, grief hangs over the village like a low sky. Yet from this wound begins a new journey that will carry him from Kabylie to Constantine, then to the streets and kitchens of Lyon. Along the way he meets Jewish, Muslim, and Christian families whose generosity and prejudice, courage and blind spots, reveal the complex face of a colonial world on the brink of change.
Inspired by the true story of the author's grandfather, The Roots of Pride paints a vivid portrait of Kabyle life-its markets, weddings, crafts and women's invisible strength-while following one man's struggle to remain upright in a world that tries to bend him. It is a novel about war and exile, memory and transmission, and the invisible roots that continue to hold us when everything else has been taken away.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, this deeply human story brings to light a forgotten chapter of history and asks a simple, burning question: how do you keep your head held high when the world tells you that you are worth less?
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