The Earthquake

Author: Wattar, Tahir

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 6 February 2024 by Saqi Books in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Saqi Bookshelf' series.

The Earthquake offers a lucid vision of post-colonial Algeria — a society in chaos, a world turned upside down. Pioneering novelist Tahir Wattar both foretells the dreadful events which would later besiege his country and presciently demonstrates the evils of intolerance, ignorance, social classism and religious extremism in this modern classic.