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 Bookshop In Algiers
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
The Wretched of the Earth
L'Art de perdre
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

“ Peace wins over wealth. ”
― Algerian Proverb

Benarrioua Aniss
“ Raise my astral body to the space And may the angels take me to higher plains To the density where poets are gods, Where my poems won’t be in vain Look at the cities from up high And see how bright Algiers can shine ; To tell myself that, you, where you are, You are the most sparkling light. ”
― Benarrioua Aniss, Sins of Algiers

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