The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories

By Assia Djebar

Book Overview

Internationally acclaimed novelist, scholar, poet and filmmaker Assia Djebar presents a brutal yet delicate exposition of how wars are fought upon women's lives and bodies. A French woman is renamed in order to be buried beside her Algerian husband; another loses her daughter to that continental divide. Despite divergent loyalties, the human heart exists within, beneath and beyond geographical borders.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583227873
• ISBN13: 9781583227879
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.4"