Cette haine qui ressemble à l’amour

During a decisive phase of the Algerian War, the Colonel is in pursuit of the elusive rebel Kim ben Kim, whose cruelty and violence threaten to push the Muslim population toward the FLN terrorists and the settlers into counter-terrorism.

However, the Colonel's major concern is to keep intact the capital of love that will allow, once military victory is achieved, the reconciliation of the two camps to be prepared.

But how to win and at what price?

Neither a plea nor an indictment, This Hatred That Looks Like Love is, above all, a great novelistic fresco where the reader is projected into the two camps of a warlike and revolutionary adventure. A host of characters, true-to-life settings, a height of vision, and a deep tenderness for heroes struggling against all hope make this novel the Gone with the Wind of the Algerian War, written by Jean Brune, whose knowledge of the African land is flawless.

The complete reissue of This Hatred That Looks Like Love, a novel first published in 1961 by Editions de la Table Ronde, allows for a better understanding of the enormous complexity of the Algerian drama – that of the years 1954 to 1962, but also that of the terrible civil war from 1990 onwards.