{"product_id":"9781913109523","title":"Attacking Earth and Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAttacking Earth and Sun\u003c\/em\u003e follows a group of settlers and soldiers throughout the hellish madness that was the colonization of Algeria by France during the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSéraphine arrives in Algeria in the 1840s with her husband, her children, her sister and her brother-in-law. She will try to build a French village there and cultivate the earth. But a cholera pandemic will soon ruin efforts to build anything.The other voice of the novel belongs to a soldier in charge of the 'pacification' of the country. Both will soon discover the barbarity of what has become their daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAttacking Earth and Sun\u003c\/em\u003e is unsparing in its portrayal of the brutality of the French army. When a captain tells his soldiers 'You're no angels'; the soldiers proudly reply 'That's right, captain, we're no angels'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacron, the French president, has called France's relationship with Algeria 'a love story that has its tragic side'. Mathieu Belezi shows that this is a very perverse love story indeed! A word of mouth success in France, \u003cem\u003eAttacking Earth and Sun\u003c\/em\u003e has sold over 100,000 copies there. It has been translated into all major European languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belezi, Mathieu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55363727556945,"sku":"9781913109523","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/6478\/4209\/files\/9781913109523.jpg?v=1792402484","url":"https:\/\/thecommonpress.shop\/products\/9781913109523","provider":"The Common Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}