Ahmed Taibaoui: اختفاء السيد لا أحد The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody)
The latest addition to my website is Ahmed Taibaoui's اختفاء السيد لا أحد The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody). Set in Algeria, the novel is divided into two linked parts. In…
The latest addition to my website is Ahmed Taibaoui's اختفاء السيد لا أحد The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody). Set in Algeria, the novel is divided into two linked parts. In…
The latest addition to my website is Nabile Farès'La Découverte du nouveau monde (Discovery of the New World). This is a trilogy of books first published French in the 1970s.…
The latest addition to my website is Kamel Daoud's Zabor ou Les psaumes [Zabor or The Psalms]. This novel, by the author of Meursault, contre-enquête (Meursault, Counter Investigation), is a…
The latest addition to my website is Boualem Sansal's 2084 la fin du monde (2084: The End Of The World). This is Sansal's updated, Algerianised 1984. Though he refers to…
The latest addition to my website is Boualem Sansal's Rue Darwin. This is a superb work by Sansal which tells the story of Yazid, an Algerian, the same age as…
The latest addition to my website is Boualem Sansal's Harraga (Harraga). Surprisingly enough for an Algerian novel novel this has been published in English and by a fairly mainstream publisher…
The latest addition to my website is Mouloud Mammeri's L’Opium et le Bâton [Opium and the Stick]. This novel reflects Mammeri's own experiences in the FLN. It is an exciting…
The latest addition to my website is Mouloud Mammeri's La Colline Oubliée [The Forgotten Hill], one of the many Algerian novels sadly not translated into English. This one is about…
The latest addition to my website is Rabah Belamri's Le Soleil sous le tamis [The Sun Under the Screen]. This is an autobiographical novel of the author's childhood in an…
Sadly, two writers whom I have not read but should have done, died yesterday. Assia Djebar was an Algerian writer and wrote novels with a feminist viewpoint. She was also…