For The German Mujahid: [A] masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt... Perfectly rendered... Perceptive... An absorbing and all too relevant novel for our times.

Publishers Weekly

In the literature of reckoning there is a special place of honor for the work of Boualem Sansal, particularly for his extraordinary novel The German Mujahid... Unsparing... Uncompromising... Keen to bear witness... A genuinely brave book... When I read Sansal, I recall [Camus]... Camus would recognize his themes in Boualem Sansal, and their shared love of the land, and their panic and dread before its terrible beauty and its ferocious sun.

The New Republic

Humane, searching and audacious... It poses profound questions... This is [Sansal's] first [book] to be translated into English. One hopes the rest will follow.

The Guardian

Eye-opening... Runs headlong into one of the Arab world's deepest taboos... with admirable vigour and courage.

The Independent