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Tomorrow They Won't Dare To Murder Us A Novel
Tomorrow They Won't Dare To Murder Us A Novel
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Description: A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught the bomb is defused and he is tortured tried in a day and sentenced to death by guillotine. A routine event perhaps in a brutal conflict that ended the lives of more than a million Muslim Algerians. But what if the militant is a "pied - noir"? What if his lover is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust? What happens to a " European" who chooses the side of anti - colonialism? By turns lyrical meditative and heart - stoppingly suspenseful this debut novel by Joseph Andras based on a true story was a literary and political sensation in France winning the Prix Goncourt for First Novel and being acclaimed by Le Monde as "vibrantly lyrical and somber" and by the journal La Croix as a "masterpiece".
Title: Tomorrow They Won't Dare To Murder Us A Novel
Author(s): Andras Joseph
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781788738712
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 2/23/2021
Series: Verso Fiction
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught the bomb is defused and he is tortured tried in a day and sentenced to death by guillotine. A routine event perhaps in a brutal conflict that ended the lives of more than a million Muslim Algerians. But what if the militant is a "pied - noir"? What if his lover is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust? What happens to a " European" who chooses the side of anti - colonialism? By turns lyrical meditative and heart - stoppingly suspenseful this debut novel by Joseph Andras based on a true story was a literary and political sensation in France winning the Prix Goncourt for First Novel and being acclaimed by Le Monde as "vibrantly lyrical and somber" and by the journal La Croix as a "masterpiece".
Title: Tomorrow They Won't Dare To Murder Us A Novel
Author(s): Andras Joseph
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781788738712
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 2/23/2021
Series: Verso Fiction
Category: Fiction In Translation