Ilhem Belkherchouche
“He drove a Peugeot his whole life and never once lost a paper. I lose everything except papers. It is a family trait that skipped the sons.”
The Land We Leave Behind, chapter one
Novels about family, land, memory, and the arrangements families make with silence.
The Land We Leave Behind
A Novel of Family, Land, and Inheritance in Algeria
Some inheritances are land. Some are silence. Nour Belhadj has to choose which one she keeps.
All books
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The Woman from Nowhere
A fair-play puzzle in the Kabylie mountains. One piece of paper, five words of Italian, and a detective who will not let the dead go unnamed.
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Worth the Paperwork
In Halvenia, citizens file their heartbreak on standard forms, in triplicate. Iris Halloway has spent six years stamping other people's.