The Earthquake offers a lucid vision of post-colonial Algeria — a society in chaos, a world turned upside down. Pioneering novelist Tahir Wattar both foretells the dreadful events which would later besiege his country and presciently demonstrates the evils of intolerance, ignorance, social classism and religious extremism in this modern classic.

"‘One of the modern Arabic classics’" - World Literature Today

"'‘Prophetic in its exposure of the misuse of religion for political purposes'" - Middle East News