Faber & Faber Country of Others

Alsace 1944: Mathilde follows the soldier she loves home to Morocco. Suffocated by the climate, loneliness, and a mistrust of foreigners, she grows restless. Relations between settlers and natives are tense and her husband is caught in the crossfire; his desire to protect his wife at odds with her desire for freedom, as the increasing violence of Moroccos struggle for independence grows.