The Survivor

Content : Summer 1956.

Jo and her younger sister Marcelle, six years her junior, live happily in Algiers. Holidays at their aunt’s seaside home, school, friends — nothing seems to disturb their daily joys. Jo is starting her fourth year at school, an age of first crushes, confidences with friends, and early acts of rebellion.

But Algeria is sliding into irreversible violence… How will Jo react when the attacks draw closer to the capital? Will she have to choose a side? Will the bombs in the city centre pull her, too, into the monstrous cycle of hatred?

Based on a true story, this novel offers a poignant, immersive journey into a defining moment of our times.