A Novel Returns to a Massacre in the Final Days of French Algeria
In "Halte au feu," Stéphane Giusti follows six characters through a 1962 shooting of pieds-noirs demonstrators in Algiers, a week after the Évian accords.
Stéphane Giusti's new novel, "Halte au feu," returns to one of the bloodiest episodes of the end of French Algeria: a demonstration by pieds-noirs in Algiers that turned into a massacre eight days after the signing of the Évian accords in 1962, according to Télérama.
The book follows six characters whose fates intersect around the event, using fiction to render what Télérama calls the colonial violence of the period with precision.
Télérama describes the result as a powerful historical novel. The review gives no further detail on publisher, length or release date, and none is available here.
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