Description: Djebar uses the deaths of three friends--a sociologist, a psychiatrist, and a playwright--as a springboard for a meditation on the history of modern Algeria and an insider's view of the horrors of civil war.
Review Quotes: "A hymn to friendship and the enduring power of language, [Algerian White ] is also a requiem for a nation's unfinished literature." -Leslie Camhi, New York Times
"Assia Djebar has given weeping its words and longing its lyrics." -William Gass
"There is not one line of theory in Algerian White. It goes much further. It whispers that time passes, but not only time, life also, life stolen by terror, a white life, of this white in which all vivid colors merge and vanish." -Le Point