Accessing Muslim Lives Nowhere in my Father’s House
Assia Djebar
2007
Algeria (Original Language: French)
‘THE RIPPED UP LETTER’ A ripped up letter: we are still in the village, during the first days of July 1952. It is my sixteenth summer, I believe. My father’s angry face hovers over the letter written to me by a person I do not know, a letter my father has just ripped up. I …