Leg Over Leg - in the Sighting of the Lovers' Crescent
Amin Zaoui
The events of the novel take place within the "Al-Muru" family. It is the story of three generations: grandfather, father and son, united by passionate love of family, village and country, and divided by the force of history, political allegiances, and the chosen paths and beliefs of each one of them. At the time of the Algerian revolution, the family, along with their whole village, flee to the Moroccan border. The novel follows the intersecting fates of these characters until a time after Algerian independence.
Publisher
Al-Ikhtilef
Nomination
2018 Longlist
Amin Zaoui
Country of origin Algeria
About the author
Amin Zaoui is an Algerian novelist and thinker, born in Bab al Assa, Tlemcen, Algeria, in 1956. He writes in both Arabic and French. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and Contemporary Thought at the Central University of Algiers and was Director General of the National Library of Algeria from 2008 to 2022. He has won numerous international prizes, including the 1998 French Secondary School Students Prize and the 2007 Cultural Dialogue Prize awarded by the President of Italy.