Kid of Balbala
The Kid of Balbala is, at first, a book which combines all superlatives. It's the first book written by Rachid Hachi, the first ever translated book in English in the entire Republic of Djibouti, and the last but not the least, the most read of all his books.The Kid of Balbala is also a historical book which plunges its reader in the events that occurred in the Horn of Africa, precisely in Somalia, the birth place of Samatalis, the main character of the book, with rare precision and an uncommon acuity. Everyone will have the feeling to go up in the past, to hear the noise of the combat aircraft, to feel the heart beating hardly, to feel the death so close.The Kid of Balbala is also about a quest. A quest for freedom, for adventure, for a promising future. An inextinguishable and inexhaustible quest to get rid of the tradi-tional burden, ignore obstacles, distance, trip, to face the unknown.The Kid of Balbala is also similar to an autobiography. The life of Samatalis, the Kid of Balbala, looks like to be mistaken for that of the author's, Rachid Hachi, who guides us in the mazes of his existence, since his birth until his maturity, via all the stages which mark out his life.The child of Balbala is a book-mirror which sends back every reader in his/ her own past, his first stammering, his first steps to the Koranic school, his first steps in the public school, his puppy loves. It is a unique masterpiece, one- of-a kind, that is read in one breath, and which offers us a mixture of feelings, emotions, so diverse and varied, which until then, had never been explored as well by a Djiboutian author.Said Ibrahim
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Kid of Balbala
The Kid of Balbala is, at first, a book which combines all superlatives. It's the first book written by Rachid Hachi, the first ever translated book in English in the entire Republic of Djibouti, and the last but not the least, the most read of all his books.The Kid of Balbala is also a historical book which plunges its reader in the events that occurred in the Horn of Africa, precisely in Somalia, the birth place of Samatalis, the main character of the book, with rare precision and an uncommon acuity. Everyone will have the feeling to go up in the past, to hear the noise of the combat aircraft, to feel the heart beating hardly, to feel the death so close.The Kid of Balbala is also about a quest. A quest for freedom, for adventure, for a promising future. An inextinguishable and inexhaustible quest to get rid of the tradi-tional burden, ignore obstacles, distance, trip, to face the unknown.The Kid of Balbala is also similar to an autobiography. The life of Samatalis, the Kid of Balbala, looks like to be mistaken for that of the author's, Rachid Hachi, who guides us in the mazes of his existence, since his birth until his maturity, via all the stages which mark out his life.The child of Balbala is a book-mirror which sends back every reader in his/ her own past, his first stammering, his first steps to the Koranic school, his first steps in the public school, his puppy loves. It is a unique masterpiece, one- of-a kind, that is read in one breath, and which offers us a mixture of feelings, emotions, so diverse and varied, which until then, had never been explored as well by a Djiboutian author.Said Ibrahim
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Kid of Balbala

Kid of Balbala

by Rachid Hachi
Kid of Balbala

Kid of Balbala

by Rachid Hachi

Overview

The Kid of Balbala is, at first, a book which combines all superlatives. It's the first book written by Rachid Hachi, the first ever translated book in English in the entire Republic of Djibouti, and the last but not the least, the most read of all his books.The Kid of Balbala is also a historical book which plunges its reader in the events that occurred in the Horn of Africa, precisely in Somalia, the birth place of Samatalis, the main character of the book, with rare precision and an uncommon acuity. Everyone will have the feeling to go up in the past, to hear the noise of the combat aircraft, to feel the heart beating hardly, to feel the death so close.The Kid of Balbala is also about a quest. A quest for freedom, for adventure, for a promising future. An inextinguishable and inexhaustible quest to get rid of the tradi-tional burden, ignore obstacles, distance, trip, to face the unknown.The Kid of Balbala is also similar to an autobiography. The life of Samatalis, the Kid of Balbala, looks like to be mistaken for that of the author's, Rachid Hachi, who guides us in the mazes of his existence, since his birth until his maturity, via all the stages which mark out his life.The child of Balbala is a book-mirror which sends back every reader in his/ her own past, his first stammering, his first steps to the Koranic school, his first steps in the public school, his puppy loves. It is a unique masterpiece, one- of-a kind, that is read in one breath, and which offers us a mixture of feelings, emotions, so diverse and varied, which until then, had never been explored as well by a Djiboutian author.Said Ibrahim

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9791097375393
Publisher: Edition Soleil Levant
Publication date: 09/02/2019
Pages: 166
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Born on first 1st December, 1977, Rachid Hachi publishes from 2007 the most known novel of his books, The Kid of Balbala, a novel which redraws the difficult life of a child who grows up in the suburb of the city. The crown of the Negus arrives one year later. Book of political fiction, was recently republished under the title of " Somber intrigues " His third novel " The Stiffs of Red Sea ", the first detective novel in Djibouti and may be in the horn of Africa, Rachid Hachi is the pioneer of a domain up to now unknown in Djibouti.
Year 2016 is a watershed year of its career. Rachid Hachi publishes five (5) novels, in particular Ayaan Daran, The pact of the Silence, Summer locust trees, The man in the Red hat and Soles of wind.
Other novels and collections of poetry are in the course of publishing, of among which:
- Broken Fates
- Wills of the sky
- The tears of the darkness
- Lamentations (Poetry)
- My Saffron yellow Country (Poetry)
- SAHAN (Poetry)
- Burst Memoirs (Poetry)
- SAFAR (Poetry)
- AYAAN BADAN or the flower which hatched
An Engineer by training, Rachid Hachi is not less poured into letters. He published up to this day eight novels among which three (3) police novels.
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