Title: The lovers of Algeria
Subtitle: [a novel]
First published: 2001
Description: Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best - friends are as likely to kill you as save you. Having run away from home, he lives by selling peanuts and single cigarettes on the street. The proposal by the elderly Swiss woman named Anna is shocking and preposterous: travel with her through war-ravaged lands, as a translator, so she can find her lost husband and pray over the graves of their murdered children. To Anna, however, the risk is no less than when they first met in Algeria during yet another time of unspeakable terror decades ago. As Anna and her lover, battered by time and memory, circle each other, [the author] asks what of humanity endures in dangerously lawless times.-Back cover.
Subjects: Terrorism in fiction, Social aspects of Terrorism, Algeria in fiction, Fiction, Terrorism, History, Fiction, psychological, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Algeria, fiction, Social aspects
Places: Algeria
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ3989.2.B425 A8313 2004