A pioneering work of interconnected perspectives, Children of the New World is a novel of insurgency and resistance by one of the Arab worlds most distinguished woman writers.Assia Djebars point of view is feminist and anticolonial, but her novel is no propaganda piece." New York Times Book ReviewCentering women in political resistance, Children of the New World follows a robust cast of women in a rural Algerian town who find themselves joined in solidarity as they empower one another to engage in the fight for independence. Narrating the resistance movement across a variety of perspectivesfrom traditional wives to liberated students to political organizersDjebar powerfully depicts the circumstances that drive oppressed communities to violence while she movingly reveals the tragic costs of war.Children of the New World was written following the authors own involvement in the Algerian resistance to colonial French rule, making it both intensely personal and deeply resonant. First published in 1962, this timeless novel embodies Djebars refined literary sensibility, empathy for people caught in times of violent change, and penetrating insights into the complex and painful difficulties between men and women (Booklist).

Binding: Paperback;233 pages; Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York; Classification: FA; Weight: 362 g; Dimensions: 142 x 216 x 14

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