Stark words

She killed a man: her husband. Fifteen years later, she was released from prison. But, having serving her sentence, did she really recover her freedom? Isolation and silence are certainly not unheard of for a woman in Algeria.
A novel that speaks of the routine violence of a society that shows no mercy to its women, and of the real violence to which women can disgracefully and painfully fall victim – pushing them, in some cases, to commit the unforgiveable.