The Oath of the Barbarians
The Oath of the Barbarians
Boualem Sansal
Boualem Sansal's 2008 Algerian novel, set in a fictional near-future Algeria dominated by an Islamist state, depicts the totalitarian logic of religious fundamentalism with the attention to bureaucratic detail of a dystopian classic. Sansal — Algeria's most prominent novelist — has faced death threats for his work; his novels are not sold in Algeria though they are occasionally tolerated. In 2024 he was arrested by Algerian authorities while traveling from France.
Literary fictionThriller✊Political
Government / national · 2000 · lifted