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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Algeria"

Houris
La Petite Dernière
Attaquer la terre et le soleil
Soleil amer
Les Vertueux
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Un homme sans titre
D'amour et de guerre
عين حمورابي
La discrétion
The Stranger
The Plague
The Meursault Investigation
A Bookshop In Algiers
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
L'Art de perdre
The Wretched of the Earth
Children of the New World
The Lovers of Algeria
ذاكرة الجسد
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (Caribbean and African Literature)
The Attack
The Last Summer of Reason
Een vrouwelijke Odysseus, N'zid by Malika MokeddemNedjma by Kateb YacineThe Sand Child by Tahar Ben JellounDe ontheemde by Malika MokeddemFor Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri
Maghreb authors
11 books — 5 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCitizens of Beauty by Jean SénacWomen of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia DjebarThe Olive Trees of Justice by Jean PelegriThe Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Authors Born in Algeria
14 books — 3 voters


Albert Camus
You think about bathing in the sea – thick as velvet, supple and smooth as a wild animal. You think about swimming naked, and at night, with the stars, and a friend. Swim till you’re far from the world, and breathing together in the same rhythm, and free of absolutely everything.
Albert Camus, The Plague

Henry Kissinger
Bouteflika: Your position was one of principle, it was very clear. Your press—Newsweek, the New York Times—were very objective on the problem. And we find that the U.S. could have stopped the Green March. The U.S. could have stopped it, or favored it. Kissinger: That’s not true. Bouteflika: We think on the contrary that France played a crude role. There was no delicacy, no subtlety. Bourguiba, Senghor—they tried to use what influence remained for France. Bongo. No finesse, no research. I don’t ...more
Henry Kissinger

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