Mathieu Belezi's Algerian cycle closes with a reissue of "C'était notre terre"
The novel, now back in print, completes a five-book fresco the French author has devoted to Algeria, ending with the war years.
"C'était notre terre" has been reissued as part of this year's rentrée littéraire, according to En attendant Nadeau. The novel closes what the outlet describes as an impressive five-novel fresco that Mathieu Belezi has built around Algeria, this final volume set during the war.
En attendant Nadeau praises Belezi's writing in the book as incandescent and polyphonic, saying it captures with precision what the outlet calls the colonial curse, here traced through the war years rather than the earlier colonial settlement the cycle covers elsewhere.
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