The Chocolate Boys

By Kassim Missoumi

Dystopia

The events of the novel are highly intertwined and complex, crafted with a Flashback technique and a satirical style that can sometimes become biting but remains delicious with a chocolatey flavor.Six friends agree to join the officer school in the army, each trying to impose their ideology by force (military, Islamist, communist, liberal, nationalist, and patriot). However, this dream shatters on the rock of bureaucracy when one of them is rejected, leading them to withdraw their applications and sit in a caf in the capital, where exciting things happen to them. They meet an undercover beggar, one of them has ice cream with the Antichrist at the Central Post Office square, and then, due to urgent circumstances, they quickly return to their city, "Jasmine Hill," by train. During the return journey, we get to know each of them, especially Walid, whose wallet is stolen, and he is struck with a heavy stick that takes his life. He embarks on a miraculous journey to heaven but wakes up once more in a library courtyard, finding himself compelled to try and save a homeless girl from her misery.The novel speaks about ambitious young people living under the hammer of a police state and the surveillance of state apparatuses. This dystopia is referred to by its inhabitants as "the people we should not talk about," where merely mentioning them brings a storm that renders everything silent and still.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DBG7ZCK6
• ISBN13: 9798334254077
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"