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
I write about family, land, memory, and the secrets families learn to live with in silence.
All books
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Worth the Paperwork
In Halvenia, love stories that end are not told, they are filed on official forms, in triplicate. Iris Halloway spent six years stamping other people's complaints, until the one she put in the wrong category.
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The Land We Leave Behind
Not every inheritance is land. Some of it is silence, passed down a generation at a time.
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The Woman from Nowhere
One piece of paper, five words of Italian, and an unidentified body in the Kabylie mountains. A fair-play detective novel: the truth is never hidden from the reader, it is waiting to be found.