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 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
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Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters

A Savage War of Peace by Alistair HorneAlgeria, 1830–2000 by Benjamin StoraAlgeria by Martin EvansAlgerian Chronicles by Albert CamusAzrayen’ by Frank Giroud
The Algerian War 1954-1962
22 books — 10 voters
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Historical Fiction - North Africa
28 books — 12 voters


Albert Camus
This is the way the region was, cruel to live in, even without men--who didn't help matters either. But Daru had been born here. Everywhere else, he felt exiled. ...more
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Christopher Hitchens
As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, l ...more
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