Me and Hayim - the beloved traveler

It seems the Algerian narrator, Habib Al-Saih, is busy as ever with the obsession of identity and deep national issues, which he shaped into a literary world filled with the scent of Algeria during the French colonial era and after independence. He skillfully weaves the threads of a story that makes your soul tighten at times as he narrates in astonishing detail the atmosphere of war, colonial crimes, and racial discrimination. The novel "Me and Hayim" talks about loss, and sometimes you feel your heart opening to it, as it takes you into the atmospheres of love, friendship, nostalgia, and religious tolerance. And love for the homeland, where opposites may meet, giving birth to the warmth of love from the womb of love and the coldness of snow. Between Saida, Meskera, Oran, and Algiers, a journey full of intertwined events, its hero a young man followed by another like his shadow, reality and imagination, until their presence crowded the novel and overflowed onto the title "Me and Hayim"! Two young men who did not gamble with their identity, despite the suffering and pain in the paths leading to it. Their every move was watched by an unblinking eye. From childhood until they reached maturity, a destroyer of pleasures separated them... It is the narrator’s eye that smoothly shifts between angles, covering, without haste, a hot phase of Algerian history. Cover type: Regular paper.