POLISARIO

By Elias Vance

THEY DID NOT STEAL LAND. THEY STOLE SPRING.

If the Devil Has a Name, It Is the Polisario is a heartbreaking, deeply human novel based on documented historical events. It lays bare one of the most agonizing untold chapters of the modern desert conflict: the forced separation of families and the state-sanctioned abduction of children sent across oceans to ideological camps.

In the spring of 1985, Ali and Sakina's world is brutally shattered when armed militants raid their peaceful desert camp in Tindouf. Ali is dragged into the notorious underground prison of Al-Rashid, Sakina is exiled to hard labor in Boukraa, and their seven-year-old son, Said, is stripped of his identity and shipped off to a remote island in Cuba.

Spanning over a decade, this powerful novel follows a mother's unyielding defiance-building a house brick by brick while searching every child's face for a birthmark-a father's silent survival on the frontlines, and a boy's desperate struggle to hold onto his mother's name across oceans and years.

A searing testament to the endurance of memory, family, and a love that tyrants could not erase.

Get your copy today and witness the true cost of stolen springs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQBTHZ3V
• ISBN13: 9798196730559
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"