{"product_id":"tomorrow-they-wont-dare-to-murder-us-isbn-9781788738712","title":"Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us","description":"\u003cb\u003eLyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught, the bomb is defused, and he is tortured, tried in a day, condemned to death, and thrown into a cell to await the guillotine. A routine event, perhaps, in a brutal conflict that ended the lives of more than a million Muslim Algerians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what if the militant is a “pied-noir”? What if his lover was a member of the French Resistance? What happens to a “European” who chooses the side of anti-colonialism?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns lyrical, meditative, and heart-stoppingly suspenseful, this novel by Joseph Andras, based on a true story, was a literary and political sensation in France, winning the Prix Goncourt for First Novel and being acclaimed by Le Monde as “vibrantly lyrical and somber” and by the journal La Croix as a “masterpiece”.“Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning. In vivid strokes, he illuminates both the interiority of a courageous man facing death for his convictions and the devastation wreaked by French colonialism in Algeria. The moral and political urgency, as well as the depth of the tragedy, still resonates in Andras’s powerful account of the life and death of Fernand Iveton.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Committed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Deeply affecting … A remarkable book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Pithy … In Leser’s translation, Andras’s prose is like the films of Jean-Pierre Melville, by turns raw and atmospheric, philosophical and hard-boiled.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matt Hartman, \u003ci\u003eProtean Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “As cogent as it is compelling.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jeremy Garber, \u003ci\u003ePowellsBooks.Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Remarkable and original … a short book that leaves a deep impression.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew Internationalist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eTomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us\u003c\/i\u003e subverts colonial morality and interrogates a philosophical dilemma that is still very much alive in our contemporary consciousness: how can Western powers torture, incarcerate, and execute ‘terrorists’ without first reckoning with their own relentless, centuries-long terrorism? And who is to determine which side serves justice and which perishes?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brady Brickner-Wood, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Tightly coiled … Andras is fastidious about adhering to the known facts. His restraint is commendable.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Vivid … Iveton not only becomes a historical symbol, but reanimated as a flesh-and-blood man who loved and was loved back.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rebecca Liu, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Electrifying … \u003ci\u003eTomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us\u003c\/i\u003e insists on plumbing the thorniest details of history’s scandal, suggesting—convincingly—that certain truths are best revealed in fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kaiama L. Glover, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Andras delivers a brisk, angry slap of outraged idealism … Powerful.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Boyd Tonkin, \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A stunning book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLucy Writers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Andras brings the story [of Fernand Iveton] back to life with painful immediacy and palpable urgency.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Arts Desk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eTomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us\u003c\/i\u003e is a compact narrative with an elevated pulse and a singular purpose—to show how an unexceptional person may act exceptionally when oppression is too threatening to one’s community to ignore … [Andras’] prose is lucid, unsparing but also animated by a certain poised affection for its oppressed characters. [His] unfussy, vivid phrasing may evoke the style of another Algeria-based novel—namely Camus’ \u003ci\u003eL’etranger\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ron Slate, \u003ci\u003eOn the Seawall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An intense portrait of a moment in history … in an equally intense and lyrical translation by Simon Leser … a powerful book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLunate Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A clear-eyed recreation of postwar Communism and the armed battle against tyranny, shot through with intense prose and insight into the characters’ inner lives.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A promising debut … Andras revives a lost moment in history.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eTomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us\u003c\/i\u003e] is just 137 pages long, but every one of them is taut and fraught, a nightmare of noble intentions gone horribly wrong.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJames Tarmy, \u003ci\u003eBloomberg Businessweek\u003c\/i\u003e (“The 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring”)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Short, intense, the best book I’ve read this month.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid Mills, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Editors’ Choice from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003en\/a\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A modern J’Accuse that puts the state in the dock … condemnatory and heartfelt.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSanjay Sipahimalani, \u003ci\u003eMoney Control\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eTomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us\u003c\/i\u003e is a lean, mean slab of righteous radicalism and unjust retribution. A consummate novelist, Joseph Andras is a talent not to be ignored.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookshop.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Subtle, concise, evocative, and poetic.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRon Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Structured around the events of a few bleak months, the circumstances, both personal and political, that led Iveton to his predicament are revealed in flashbacks that are seamlessly inserted into the text.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMark Rappolt, \u003ci\u003eArtReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Compelling.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDeclan O’Driscoll, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An austerely compelling account of the capture, trial and execution … Andras’s bleak account is leavened by passages of vibrant lyricism.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLaura Garmeson, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Andras’s novel reaches for imaginative inner connections and syntheses across scale and time. He is no stranger to sociological contradiction, nor to psychological complexity.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jeffery R. Webber, \u003ci\u003eSpectre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Like the love child of Camus’ \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e and Gillo Pontecorvo’s \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Algiers\u003c\/i\u003e: elemental, brutal and calm all at the same time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ryne Clos, \u003ci\u003eSpectrum Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Tender and beautiful.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sean Sheehan, \u003ci\u003eThe Prisma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A short, very simply but beautifully written book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIrish Marxist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Andras\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eDe nos frères blessés \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKanaky\u003c\/i\u003e. Awarded the Prix Goncourt du premier roman for \u003ci\u003eDe nos frères blessés\u003c\/i\u003e, he refused the prize, explaining his belief that \"competition and rivalry were foreign to writing and creation.\" He lives in Le Havre.","brand":"Verso Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301558571237,"sku":"NP9781788738712","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788738712.jpg?v=1767742799","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tomorrow-they-wont-dare-to-murder-us-isbn-9781788738712","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}