Novels set in the French colonial empire

1932 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

book by Marguerite Duras

novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

novel by Alexandre Dumas

Nedjma is a novel written by Kateb Yacine and published in 1956. It tells the story of four young men (Mustapha, Lakhdar, Rachid, Mourad) who fall in love with Nedjma, daughter of an Algerian and a French woman, during the French colonization of Algeria. It is set in the east of Algeria, with most of the action taking place in the region around Constantine and Annaba (referred to by its French name, Bône, in the text).

1980 novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio