The Crisis Generation: A novel of war, memory, and silence that swallowed a country

The Crisis Generation is a haunting, intimate portrait of youth shattered by war — and the silence that followed.

Set in 1990s Algeria, during the country’s brutal civil conflict, this novel follows Oussama and his childhood friends as they grow up in the shadow of vanished fathers, curfews, fear, and grief. What begins as ordinary village life slowly erodes into quiet devastation — and with each act of violence, each disappearance, something vanishes inside them too.

They are not heroes. They are not martyrs.
They are the children who were never allowed to be children — shaped not by love or freedom, but by fear, by grief, and by the space between the hammer and the anvil.

Written in spare, poetic prose and inspired by true events, The Crisis Generation explores what happens to a country when it forgets its children — and what happens to those children when no one comes to save them.

This is not just a novel. It is a memory.
One that still walks, still aches, still burns.