On a balmy evening in September 1997, in a hamlet in the heights of Algiers, the men play dominoes outside while the women put away the meal.
The scent of orange blossom milk floats, children come and go after dark.
A jeep shows up.
No doubt soldiers from the neighboring barracks who monitor the outskirts of the Baïnem forest, where the GIA terrorists are hiding.
Axes and sabers appear.
Soon the typical groans of slit throats arise.
The heroine, Selma, 21, witnesses the massacre.
What is she doing there?
And what is her link with this humble village of Sidi Youcef, she who lives in the wealthy neighborhoods of Hammamet, on the other side of the woods?
We will find out at the end of the novel.
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Because the story then goes back nine years, before going back in time.
October 1988. Riots devastate Algiers.
Stores looted, administrations burned.
The army is shooting.
Five hundred dead.
That week, Selma’s father, Brahim, invited his friends…
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