Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us

A Novel

Joseph Andras

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English

Verso
29 March 2021

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Verso Fiction

"A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught, the bomb is defused, and he is tortured, tried in a day and sentenced to death by guillotine. A routine event, perhaps, in a brutal conflict that ended the lives of more than a million Muslim Algerians.

But what if the militant is a ""pied-noir""? What if his lover is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust? What happens to a ""European"" who chooses the side of anti-colonialism?

By turns lyrical, meditative, and heart-stoppingly suspenseful, this debut novel by Joseph Andras, based on a true story, was a literary and political sensation in France, winning the Prix Goncourt for First Novel and being acclaimed by Le Monde as ""vibrantly lyrical and somber"" and by the journal La Croix as a ""masterpiece""."

By: Joseph Andras
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 135g
ISBN: 9781788738712
ISBN 10: 1788738713
Series: Verso Fiction
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 29 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph Andras is the author of the novels De nos freres blesses and Kanaky. Awarded the Prix Goncourt du premier roman for De nos freres blesses, he refused the prize, explaining his belief that competition and rivalry were foreign to writing and creation . He lives in Le Havre.

Reviews for Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us: A Novel

Vibrantly lyrical and somber...strikingly powerful - Le Monde A masterpiece - La Croix Lyrical, precise, and rhythmic - L'Humanite Empathic, nerve-wracking, and inspired - France Info A great book even before being a first book - Phillipe Claudel, Goncourt judge A clear-eyed recreation of postwar Communism and the armed battle against tyranny, shot through with intense prose and insight into the characters' inner lives. - Publishers Weekly A promising debut ... Andras revives a lost moment in history - Kirkus Reviews