A review by causticcovercritic
A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi

3.0

In theory this book should be catnip for me, but it has one fundamental flaw. The narrative is in two strands, and only the boring one (man dismantles old shop) has any depth and texture, while the interesting one (establishing a bookshop and publishing house during WW2, publishing Resistance work, going to prison, the Algerian independence fight, etc) is schematic and often nothing more than lists of names.