Overview
Region
North Africa
Algeria
Era
Contemporary
Language
French
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Third volume of the Algerian Quartet, weaving together the story of a filmmaker's love affair and the 146 BCE destruction of Carthage, exploring how women's voices are lost to history and recovered.
Literary Significance
Djebar's most autobiographical novel; her excavation of Carthaginian women prefigures her election to the Académie Française