- 2017
A tiny Algiers bookshop, from Camus’s first publisher in 1936 to the day it closes.
- 2013also Oran
The brother of the Arab Meursault killed answers back, from a bar in Oran.
- 2010
1957, the battle of Algiers: a French captain and the torture he can no longer bear.
- 1997
- 1994
A poor childhood in Belcourt, Algiers, with a deaf mother and a hard grandmother.
- 1985
The French taking of Algiers in 1830, woven with a girl’s life under the colony.
- 1980
The women of Algiers after independence, behind the doors of Delacroix’s painting.
- 1942
A clerk in Algiers buries his mother, goes swimming, and shoots an Arab on a beach.
- 1938
- 1859
A painter’s year in a Moorish house above Algiers, 1852–53, and the life of its streets.