XV. Will There Be Another Spring?: The Last Summer of Reason by

XV. Will There Be Another Spring?: The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout

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A little-known novel in the Anglophone world, The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout reveals the quite rebellion of a bookseller living under a fundamentalist regime. Niko and Tatiana briefly go over the history of the author and the Algerian Civil War, before diving into themes of faith, purity, and the power of books in this short but powerful story published after Djaout's assassination.

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