Children of the New World
Across a single day in a small Algerian town beneath a mountain the French are shelling, a dozen lives cross: a wife who has never left her courtyard, a schoolteacher's daughter carrying messages, a man deciding whether to go up to the maquis, an interpreter who works for the interrogators. The war reaches each of them through a door, a window or a knock. Djebar's third novel, and the first in which the women of the revolution are given room to speak.
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