A review by the_batlix
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar

3.0

While the prose is quite poetic, in the end the book is a bit of a slog to go through. The stories of the women, though very interesting, are very fragmented and while there's somewhat recurring themes in them there's no clear point made with them. It reads like journalistic articles instead of a book. The historic reports of the war in the beginning of the book can be skipped almost entirely. It's quite an unnecessary infodump.