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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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 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
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (Caribbean and African Literature)
ذاكرة الجسد
Swallows of Kabul
The Attack

Benarrioua Aniss
Now I give this rascal weight from off my head The pride of a streetborn artist from off my chest With my own hands I renounce my earthly claims With my own sins I ink this very book In this vaudevillian theater we’ve all had our plays Of wisdom, folly, love songs and lamentations of twin flames
Benarrioua Aniss, Sins of Algiers

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

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