Attacking Earth and Sun

“Belezi’s scathing English-language debut depicts the early-19th-century colonization of Algeria as a Boschian tableau of arrogance and atrocity…this mesmerizes with its righteous and often poetic anger.” —Publishers Weekly

“Mathieu Belezi doesn’t pull any punches: he puts forth his vision of French colonization in Algeria.” —Leïla Slimani, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny

“[Belezi] captures the racism that underpinned colonization and the greed that led to land expropriation, but also the doubts that gnawed at settlers who fled France to escape poverty.” —New York Times

“Belezi prods this dark period of French history with care, prompting questions about how France will choose to teach its children about Algeria and how other colonial powers can reconcile their own pasts with the consequences they still live with.” —Chicago Review of Books

“[A] magnetic novel, with an impressive rhythmic power.” —Le Monde