Books set in Oran: 4 novels

2024
Houris
2024 · Kamel Daoud · novel
A woman whose throat was cut in the civil war speaks to the daughter she carries, in Oran.
2013
The Meursault Investigation
Meursault, contre-enquête
2013 · Kamel Daoud · novelalso Algiers
The brother of the Arab Meursault killed answers back, from a bar in Oran.
2008
What the Day Owes the Night
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
2008 · Yasmina Khadra · novel
1930s–1962: an Arab boy raised among the colonists of Oran, and a love the war forbids.
1947
The Plague
La Peste
1947 · Albert Camus · novel
Plague shuts Oran for a year, and a doctor and a few men fight it street by street.

Houris