North Africa
Algeria
Contemporary
French
Fiction
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.
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Djebar's most autobiographical novel; her excavation of Carthaginian women prefigures her election to the Académie Française
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editorial-summarynot primary textThird 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. Djebar's most autobiographical novel; her excavation of Carthaginian women prefigures her election to the Académie Française
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