{"product_id":"9781913109523","title":"Attacking Earth and Sun","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Belezi, Mathieu\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 20 October 2026 by HopeRoad Publishing Ltd (HopeRoad) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | \u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 10 | 164g\u003cp\u003eAttacking Earth and Sun follows a group of settlers and soldiers throughout the hellish madness that was the colonization of Algeria by France during the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSéraphine arrives in Algeria in the 1840s with her husband, her children, her sister and her brother-in-law. She will try to build a French village there and cultivate the earth. But a cholera pandemic will soon ruin efforts to build anything.The other voice of the novel belongs to a soldier in charge of the “pacification” of the country. Both will soon discover the barbarity of what has become their daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttacking Earth and Sun is unsparing in its portrayal of the brutality of the French army. When a captain tells his soldiers 'You're no angels'; the soldiers proudly reply 'That's right, captain, we're no angels'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacron, the French president, has called France's relationship with Algeria 'a love story that has its tragic side'. Mathieu Belezi shows that this is a very perverse love story indeed! A word of mouth success in France, Attacking Earth and Sun has sold over 100,000 copies there. It has been translated into all major European languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belezi, Mathieu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54712944099512,"sku":"9781913109523","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781913109523.jpg?v=1794323198","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781913109523","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}