Books set in Algeria (36)
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AlgeriaDescription:
The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story from the point of view of an unknown narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, ... continue
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The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leïla Marouane EN
TunisiaDescription:
"An eloquent work that explores complex social, ethnic, religious, and psychological issues with great sensitivity."---The French Review --Book Jacket.
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The Stranger by Albert Camus EN
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With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
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Vaste est la prison : roman by Assia Djebar FR
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" Vaste est la prison qui m'écrase ", dit la complainte berbère qui ouvre ce roman sur l'Algérie des femmes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Comme dans le présent algérien s'entremêlent ici des tragédies, des passions et des mutations, celles de femmes presque toujours en mouvement : la narratrice dans le désert et le silence d'une passion amoureuse, l'aïeule qui à quatorze ans épouse un riche septuagénaire, la mère quittant le voile pour rendre visite en France à son fils prisonnier politique, et tant d'autres figures féminines peintes comme des " fugitives et ne le sachant pas ", improvisant leurs c... continue
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What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra EN
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As a young man Younes' life is irrevocably changed when he leaves his broken home for the vibrant, colourful and affluent European district of Rio Salado. Renamed Jonas, he begins a new life and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake.