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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
L’étranger L’étranger Albert Camus *L'Étranger* est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn… OL1230613W
Fantasia, an Algerian cavalcade Fantasia, an Algerian cavalcade Assia Djebar,Djebar, Assia In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Lib… OL16336468W
On leave On leave Daniel Anselme "When On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for so… OL19708145W
Harraga Harraga Boualem Sansal Two women, a lonely, unmarried pediatrician and a spontaneous, pregnant 16 year-old teenager, forge a strong, unlikely emotional bond after a short time living together in a crumbling mansion in the … OL19992850W
Where I left my soul Where I left my soul Jérôme Ferrari He was interned at Buchenwald during the German occupation and imprisoned by the Vietnamese when France's armies in the Far East collapsed. Now Capitaine Degorce is an interrogator himself, and the o… OL22780816W
The Consul's daughter The Consul's daughter Ann Schlee The British Consul's daughter, wife, and infant son find themselves returned to the thick of the Battle of Algiers on the very ship that was to have carried them to safety. OL5592424W
L'Hôte L'Hôte Albert Camus An Algerian schoolteacher develops a strange alliance with the Arab prisoner temporarily left in his charge, giving him the chance to select his own destiny. OL7960746W
Children of the New World Children of the New World Assia Djebar Assia Djebar, the most distinguished woman writer to emerge from the Arab world-and a top candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature-wrote Children of the New World following her own involvement in … OL8113040W