A breathless story of love and survival in wartorn Algeriapast and presentThe devil has entered our country and his footprints are everywhere.Nineyearold Jallal... » 

A breathless story of love and survival in wartorn Algeriapast and presentThe devil has entered our country and his footprints are everywhere.Nineyearold Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria isprecarious at best. Having run away from home he survives by selling peanutsand single cigarettes on the street. The proposal by the elderly Swiss womannamed Anna is shocking and preposterous go to the mountains with her as atranslator so she can find her lost lover from decades ago and pray over thegraves of their murdered children.Anna and Jallals journey is wrought with danger and unspeakable tragedy. Itwas under similar circumstances that Anna first met the Arab Nasreddine. Oustedfrom the traveling circus where she performed as a trapeze artist she hadlittle choice but to accept Nasreddines dangerous offer to live with him in amakeshift tent. But it was here amid poverty racism and terrifyingly randomviolence that they fell in love.A best seller in France The Lovers of Algeria is an unflinchingly candidstory about a country where terrorism and government corruption arecommonplace. As Anna and Nasreddine beaten by time and memory circle eachother in Algeria Anouar Benmalek shows with heartwrenching detail that lovecan endure even the most inhuman conditions.A Lannan Translation Series Selection «