Algeria

Books in this genre are set in or about Algeria.

Algeria is a North African country with a Mediterranean coastline and a Saharan desert interior. Many empires have left legacies here, such as the ancient Roman ruins in seaside Tipaza. In the capital, Algiers, Ottoman landmarks like circa-1612 Ketchaoua Mosque line the hillside Casbah quarter, with its narrow alleys and stairways. The city’s Neo-Byzantine basilica Notre Dame d’Afrique dates to French colonial rule.

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The Meursault Investigation
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
A Bookshop In Algiers
L'Art de perdre
The Wretched of the Earth
Children of the New World
The Lovers of Algeria
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Amin Maalouf
You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot. ...more
Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

Benarrioua Aniss
Codolyc 30 mg And the cops come out of the woodwork We hide in the holes we call home Catch us if you can And I hear la voix de ville humming in my head And I see the sirens of the seven villes moving ahead To come and greet the connoisseur of paths Me I say « Bravo» and «Long live death»
Benarrioua Aniss, Sins of Algiers

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