Mosteghanemi's trilogy — Memory in the Flesh (1993), Chaos of the Senses (1997), and Bed Hopper (2003) — built around an Algerian war veteran painter living in Paris and his obsession with the daughter of a fallen comrade, sold in the millions across the Arab world and made her one of the most popular novelists in the Arabic language.
Recurring themes
the unfinished Algerian revolution
exile in the colonial metropole
Arabic literary romance after Mahfouz
the female narrator and the dead father
Selected works
- 1993Memory in the Flesh
- 1997Chaos of the Senses
- 2003Bed Hopper
- 2009The Art of Forgetting
- 2012Black Suits You