Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War

The internationally acclaimed writer Assia Djebar portrays the interlocking lives of women and men in an Algerian mountain town, plunged into a protracted anti-colonial struggle against France in the 1950s. Children of the New World, written one year before Algerian independence, reveals the escalating conflict from the perspectives of a variety of characters - traditional wives, radicalized students, and political organizers. In the novel, the desperate conflict transforms women's lives, drawing them inexorably from the private world of the home into a war for their community's liberation.