Djebar melds fiction and memoir to describe the final days of Algerian friends who died during the 1956 struggle for independence. The New York Times called the book a requiem for a nation's unfinished literature. BNS. 240pp. USA. SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 1583225161

A novel sliding easily from the past and the French occupation of Algiers towards the present, and the changing relationships between peoples. TEXT IN FRENCH. 316pp, FRANCE. Le Livre de Poche 2253151270

Brahim Llob, the policeman-writer, is summoned by the chief of Algerian police and is fired for having published Morituri, the book which the Algerian establishment considered dishonourable and full of lies. Following a trip back to his hometown where he becomes a victim of an attack by a GIA commando, Llob goes back to Algiers. Fiction and reality intermesh in this third volume of the Inspector Llob series, which has the violence of Algeria as a constant supporting character throughout. 220pp, USA. THE TOBY PRESS.

An exploration of the extreme borders of motherhood and humanity in which the narrator recounts the premature death of her first born child, who was left in the care of the clinic in Algeria where her midwife mother works. BNS, 152pp, USA. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Ben Ouda, a senior diplomat, is found savagely murdered. Is this yet another victim of the never ending Islamic fundamentalist violence in Algiers? Ispector Llob has doubts: Ben Ouda had too many friends, too many far fetched theories ... Navigating the Algiers underworld and rich elite, Inspector Llob resists the pressure of politicians, fundamentalists and crooks in his pursuit, against the background of a world in turmoil. Gloss, 129pp, USA. THE TOBY PRESS.

A novel sliding easily from the past - the French occupation of Algiers towards the present-changing relations between peoples. 227 pp, USA.

Lyric and elegy are interwoven in this evocation of the dreams and sufferings of women in early Islam. Bedouin queens, seers and wanderers are all brought to life in these stories set after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Gloss, 304pp, UK. QUARTET.

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A novel exploring how one can be free. An Algerian looks forward from colonialism towards a new future? First novel in a trilogy. Text in French.179pp, FRANCE.

Second in the trilogy. The main character, Omar, has begun a new life in a village in the highland of Algeria. He becomes embroiled in strikes by agricultural workers and a country in turmoil. This is Dib's testament to the Algerian peasantry. Text in French. 188pp, France.

In a small Algerian village three friends try to become responsible adults while issues of love, war and religion threaten to tear their society and country to pieces. Gloss, 212pp, UK. THE TOBY PRESS, 1902881117

The story of a noble but flawed bookseller's resistance to violent, rigid theocracy in Algeria. This dystopian novel was written just prior to the author's assassination. Foreword by Wole Soyinka. xvi, 145pp, UK. RUMINATOR BOOKS, 1886913579

Spanning four decades of Algerian history, from the 1940s to the 1980s, this novel revolves around a love affair between Khaled, a middle aged militant who turns to painting after losing his left arm in the struggle and the young daughter of his friend. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. First published in Arabic in 1985. 262pp, EGYPT. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, 9774247345

Third novel in the trilogy which tells the story of Omar, a young Algerian who watches as his community is slowly crushed by labour and hunger as the Second World War approaches. French text, 203pp, FRANCE.

Called in to investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of one of Algiers's top power brokers, Superintendent Llob's hunt takes him through fear filled streets to find Sabrine. Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. Gloss, 137pp, UK. THE TOBY PRESS, 1592640354

Novel about a former foreign correspondent, Charles Mortimer, washed up in Manhattan, wondering how things could have gone so wrong for him. A chance discovery of a newspaper obituary takes him back to the beginning of his career, reporting from the Sahara Desert in the company of beautiful French photographer Celeste Dumas. The two narrowly escape death and by the end of their adventure, Mortimer has begun his life as a successful, cynical journalist. Fifteen years roll by, and Mortimer finds himself again in Algeria, where he perpetrates the great error of his professional life and realizes, finally, what it was he lost so long ago in the desert. 242pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Thirteen stories feature in the first book-length English translation of one of the founding fathers of North African literature. Whether set in present-day Algeria, depicting the war for independence, or evoking memories of the colonial era, many of the stories paint a vivid picture of the diverse facets of the Algerian question. x, 191pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Recounts the life of an Algerian woman raised in the grip of colonial oppression and the Algerian War. Her tale is interwoven with the early history of her land and the disappearance of its languages amid wars of conquest. 363pp, USA. SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 1583220674

New in paperback. The story of Nafa Walid, and Algerian who keeps the company of poets and dreams of films, who is gradually drawn into the fundamentalist movement as he faces increasing disappointment and disillusionment. Translated from the French. Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul. Gloss, 260pp, UK. THE TOBY PRESS.