Boyd Tonkin

Algeria’s War of Independence still leaves festering wounds, two new novels reveal

Alice Zeniter and Joseph Andras are the latest writers to examine the effect of the bitter conflict on participants and subsequent generations

French soldiers arrest Algerian civilians during Operation Bigeard, launched to counter FLN strongholds in March 1956. Credit: Getty Images
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  • The Art of Losing

    Alice Zeniter, translated by Frank Wynne

    Picador, pp. 480, £16

  • Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us

    Joseph Andras, translated by Simon Leser

    Verso, pp. 144, £8

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