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Set in contemporary Algeria, ETERNAL TRAUMA goes from a protected young doctor in the bosom of his family to a bus trip into the unknown breeches of fighting and killing. Befriending the twenty-year old reckless Moha, the two are thrown into a series of misadventures and ordeals, which makes them as close as the bark to the tree. Ambushed by a terrorist group, the two witness the slaughter of all their bus comrades. Taken to serve the group in the woods, Mustapha falls in love with Amanda, the pretty English journalist whom Djafar, the group´s leader has captured to make her his fourth wife. Months go by and Mustapha´s despise towards the cruel murderers grows unbearable, especially when he meets two French captives who have lost all their friends because of Djafar´s brutality. A heaven-sent plan and an underground secret tunnel help Mustapha and the three European captives to escape, but not Moha who sacrifices his life trying to save his best friend. ETERNAL TRAUMA is an impressive tale of death full of passion for loved ones loss, a true story of a young doctor s life plagued with trauma that knew no boundaries

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Fethi Achouri is 37, born and educated in Algeria and know almost everything about the turmoil that cast the whole country into its nine-year civil war. This true story emerged unbidden, prompted by the fact that he spent part of his youth in the birthplace of two characters appearing in the novel. A French and English literatures teacher by day an

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