Houris

Aube, whose throat was cut in Algeria's civil war, cannot speak, in a country that forbids remembering that war. Pregnant, she talks only to her unborn daughter and travels back to the village where her ordeal started.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

411 pages in the original

Genres

War, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Algeria, 1990s

First published

2024 by Gallimard

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9782072999994 (original)