This is a summary presentation of "Tin-n-Ouahr", a novel, proposed in six volumes. "Tin soldiers" is the Volume One. All books can be examined separatly, without altering the pleasure of reading. Its prologue defines the plot and explains the theme. These preliminaries augur a fiction in general litterature, sometimes with an autobiographical connotation, at others times with romance ingredients, immersions in political, sociological and psychological world of a country, certainly not prosaic, also not secular, strongly defending the universal ethic, built retentlessly by positive humanity to elevate the dignity of men towards the tallest pedestals.

AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY DEDICATED BY ONE OF HIS FRIENDS, NOW DISAPPEARED :"Muhammad Jamal El Kadiri was born in 1953. Political scientist by academic background, he came early to writing, late to publication, by taste and quality requirement. His novels are talented, but hard and incisive. He depicts with striking reality the vicissitudes of the condition of intellectuals in his country. His literary time leaves the reader a strange feeling of duration, witch captivates and holds in suspense until the last sentence."

SYMBOLIC OF THE VOLUME 1 :

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The Chief Warrant Officer hesitates a moment, sucks another puff of cigarette while holding his breath. Then he looks over the heads of men. He seems to see a distant intimacy with a painful gravity, before turning his gaze back to the corridor. And despite the decision he made to say them a big secret, he certainly seems to fear the inappropriate arrival of a person only known by him. As he exhales the smoke from his lungs, he continues in a low voice, with a slowly tone, very slowly, surrounded by the dense halo of infected tobacco from the army:

"Between Tin-n-Hert and Tassili Ajjers... Beyond Issaouane Erg... To where the sun sets, the ancients said... Rather to were it rises, said the novices... Ignoring the speculations of each and other, it is there, which extends to infinity... A dry land... hostile... fierce... dark... redoubtable... This is the kingdom of Tin-n-Ouahr."

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In Tin-n-Ouahr Vol 1 "Tin soldiers" Chapter 5