أغالب مجرى النهر

Aqila, a well-known eye surgeon, and her husband, who runs a hospital mortuary, take corneas from corpses and sell them through her practice. After he is killed she is questioned as a suspect, and the truth about their marriage comes out. Across town, veterans of the independence war beg to be cleared of a made-up charge of working for the French. The two stories slowly meet, and with them fifty years of Algeria, from 1939 to the early 1990s: a mother who prepared poisons for the fighters, a father branded with a scar like a mark of guilt.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Algeria, 1940s–1990s

First published

2025 by Hachette Antoine

Author's age

41 when first published