Boualem Yekker, a bookseller, lived in loneliness and silent anger, in a country that used to be a republic but now calls itself a "Community of Faith". Change happened all around him: the youths of the Vigilant Brothers appeared everywhere, destroyed musical instruments, burned rolls of film by the dozen, ripped canvas paintings, smashed statues—all with the conviction that beauty is found only in God, and that nothing in the