{"product_id":"attacking-earth-and-sun","title":"Attacking Earth and Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eAttacking Earth and Sun follows a group of settlers and soldiers throughout the hellish madness that was the colonization of Algeria by France during the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSéraphine arrives in Algeria in the 1840s with her husband, her children, her sister and her brother-in-law. She will try to build a French village there and cultivate the earth. But a cholera pandemic will soon ruin efforts to build anything.The other voice of the novel belongs to a soldier in charge of the “pacification” of the country. Both will soon discover the barbarity of what has become their daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAttacking Earth and Sun is unsparing in its portrayal of the brutality of the French army. When a captain tells his soldiers \"You're no angels\"; the soldiers proudly reply \"That's right, captain, we're no angels\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMacron, the French president, has called France's relationship with Algeria 'a love story that has its tragic side\". Mathieu Belezi shows that this is a very perverse love story indeed! A word of mouth success in France, Attacking Earth and Sun has sold over 100,000 copies there. It has been translated into all major European languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HopeRoad","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56341276557697,"sku":"9781913109523","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/jpg_rgb_0250w_c63df5f1-6c46-4fc2-9f54-e8e8d8f8f4f1.jpg?v=1790852163","url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/products\/attacking-earth-and-sun","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}