Nedjma is a novel by Kateb Yacine

Kateb Yacine

Kateb Yacine was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic dialect, and his advocacy of the Algerian Berber cause.-Biography:...

 published in 1956.

Summary

It tells the story of four young men (Mustapha, Lakhdar, Rachid, Mourad) who fell in love with Nedjma, daughter of an Algerian and a French woman, during the french colonization of Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

. The particularity of this novel is its mythical universe: the Keblout village, a tribe that is described as the root of the Algerian people.