To Algeria, With Love

Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 and promptly falls for Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war. He teaches her about life and love in a chilly furnished room, against a background of French pop music that makes it all seem easy. But families and history reassert their claim and the inevitable separation leaves lasting wounds.

Forty years later, finally old enough to understand how young I was back then Louise enlists the help of another Algerian exile in an attempt to make amends.

To Algeria with Love is a lucid, witty novel about the personal and the political, about love and home and about the cruel and merciful law of unintended consequences.

“" To Algeria, With Love tells a painful story, but in Ruta's deft hands it also manages to be a hopeful one."”

""To Algeria, With Love" tells a painful story, but in Ruta s deft hands it also manages to be a hopeful one." "The New York Times""
"Lyrical and engaging...historical fiction readers and fans of Susanna Kerasley will enjoy this enthralling and entertaining tale." Booklist"

Suzanne Ruta is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in TIME magazine and the NEW YORK TIMES.

Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 and promptly falls for Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war. He teaches her about life and love in a chilly furnished room, against a background of French pop music that makes it all seem easy. But families and history reassert their claim and the inevitable separation leaves lasting wounds. Forty years later, finally old enough to understand how young I was back then Louise enlists the help of another Algerian exile in an attempt to make amends. To Algeria with Love is a lucid, witty novel about the personal and the political, about love and home and about the cruel and merciful law of unintended consequences.

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