Boualem Sansal - An Unfinished Business

Guardian“Humane, searching and audacious...” Sansal's concern is less with understanding the Holocaust as the other side's narrative than with absorbing its universal meaning to prevent recurrence in another guise. As Rachel writes: "Silence perpetuates a crime, gives it new life"...

The Scotsman“Very fine and painful...” This is a remarkable novel, and, given the author's nationality, his continued residence in Algeria, and the response he dares to invite from the militant Islamists, a remarkably brave one. It is compelling and gripping...

The Independent“Failure to progress beyond its initial premise...” The novel's most significant failure is, perhaps, its inability to make Malrich much more than a disaffected mouthpiece for a generation of French Muslims, ill at ease in the place they occupy between racism and religious extremism...

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