Eto kak den' posredi nochi - Khadra Ia.

Days and nights, light and darkness, grief and joy - in short, life as it is. Life as a memory of several decades - so you can describe this complex, psychological, poetic novel about the fate of the Algerian Younes. The father, wanting to save his son from poverty, gives nine-year-old Younes a rich brother-pharmacist, and the boy gets into the world of white Europeans. Algeria is at war for independence. The hero will face many changes and trials. Carelessness and fun of youth are replaced by disappointment, infidelity, severance of friendships. But the only constant remains The love of Younes to the French Emily, who after the liberation of Algeria from the colonizers forced to leave for France. Both he and she are made for each other, but fate has judged in its own way. And was happiness possible for them?..