Sur qui tombe la nuit tells the story of Anna. Her childhood, suspended between two countries—Algeria and France—and torn apart by war, is woven with shadows, lies, and her mother’s unexplained disappearance. The years pass, but the past does not fade away.
Anna, a child of departure and silence, grappling with her ghosts and an incurable illness, discovers that the absent govern the living.
A heartbreaking debut novel about loss and reconstruction, inspired by the author’s own story, where silence becomes a language, where exile is just another form of return, where each secret revealed hides another, even heavier one. Love, the only stubborn thread between generations, resists everything—even the truth.
